NicheStack routine for parsing DNS responses does not check whether the number of queries/responses specified in the packet header corresponds to the query/response data available in the DNS packet, leading to OOB-R
InterNiche (, 4.3), fixed in 4.3
The DNS feature in InterNiche NicheStack TCP/IP 4.0.1 is affected by: Out-of-bounds Read. The impact is: a denial of service (remote). The component is: DNS response processing in function: dns_upcall(). The attack vector is: a specific DNS response packet. The code does not check whether the number of queries/responses specified in the DNS packet header corresponds to the query/response data available in the DNS packet.
No PoC is supplied for this issue
If not needed, disable the NicheStack DNS client through the NicheStack CLI
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