Four-byte memory corruption via missing UDP bounds check
Published Oct 17, 2025 · Updated Oct 17, 2025
Buffer over-read in Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo before 6.4.4 allows remote attackers to corrupt four memory bytes via a crafted IPv4 packet. During unicast DHCP handling with an interface address of zero, _nx_ipv4_packet_receive() removes the IP header and byte-swaps a presumed UDP header without checking that the payload contains one. An unauthenticated network sender needs only mark an empty IPv4 payload as UDP; the documented consequence is limited to four bytes of memory corruption.
Summary
What happened
Buffer over-read in Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo before 6.4.4 allows remote attackers to corrupt four memory bytes via a crafted IPv4 packet. During unicast DHCP handling with an interface address of zero, _nx_ipv4_packet_receive() removes the IP header and byte-swaps a presumed UDP header without checking that the payload contains one. An unauthenticated network sender needs only mark an empty IPv4 payload as UDP; the documented consequence is limited to four bytes of memory corruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-55093
- Published
- Oct 17, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 17, 2025
- Vendor
- The Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse ThreadX NetX Duo
- Classifications
- CWE-126, CWE-125
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 17, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <6.4.4
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