Service crash via malformed UD2 character decoding
Published Feb 13, 2025 · Updated Feb 18, 2025
Heap buffer overflow in Mercedes-Benz NTG 6 allows physically proximate attackers to crash the User-Data service using a crafted USB backup. During UD2 decoding, CHBString iterator logic treats byte 0xe7 as one byte while removal treats it as a three-byte UTF character, producing an out-of-bounds pointer and a memmove size of -1. Triggering requires physical access to the vehicle's exposed USB interface and importing the crafted profile; the failed service instance restarts automatically.
Summary
What happened
Heap buffer overflow in Mercedes-Benz NTG 6 allows physically proximate attackers to crash the User-Data service using a crafted USB backup. During UD2 decoding, CHBString iterator logic treats byte 0xe7 as one byte while removal treats it as a three-byte UTF character, producing an out-of-bounds pointer and a memmove size of -1. Triggering requires physical access to the vehicle's exposed USB interface and importing the crafted profile; the failed service instance restarts automatically.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-37601
- Published
- Feb 13, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 18, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-122, T1499
- Attack vector
- physical
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 13, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 18, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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