Description (CNA)
RIOT OS versions up to and including 2026.01-devel-317 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the tapslip6 utility. The vulnerability is caused by unsafe string concatenation in the devopen() function, which constructs a device path using unbounded user-controlled input. The utility uses strcpy() and strcat() to concatenate the fixed prefix '/dev/' with a user-supplied device name provided via the -s command-line option without bounds checking. This allows an attacker to supply an excessively long device name and overflow a fixed-size stack buffer, leading to process crashes and memory corruption.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| RIOT / RIOT OS | affected 0 through 2026.01-devel-317 |
CWE
CWE-121
References
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Jan/15
- https://www.riot-os.org/
- https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/riot-os-stack-based-buffer-overflow-in-tapslip6-utility
ADP enrichment
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