CVE-2019-6989
TP-Link TL-WR940N is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the ipAddrDispose function. By sending specially...
- Published
- Jun 6, 2019
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Apr 9, 2019
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:CModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 95.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
TP-Link TL-WR940N is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the ipAddrDispose function. By sending specially crafted ICMP echo request packets, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges.
Sources
1Grzegorz Wypych · hardware · Apr 9, 2019
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