{"id":"CVE-2026-102715","title":"Any host on the LAN can send two mDNS records and make the responder write past the end of its\n\n\n\ntransmit packet.\n\n\n\nThe string table stores each name in a slot rounded up to a multiple of four:\n\n\n\n```c\n\n\n\n/* addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:1143…","summary":"Any host on the LAN can send two mDNS records and make the responder write past the end of its\n\n\n\ntransmit packet.\n\n\n\nThe string table stores each name in a slot rounded up to a multiple of four:\n\n\n\n```c\n\n\n\n/* addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:1143…","severity":"high","cvss":7.1,"cvssVector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","cwe":["CWE-787"],"vendor":"Eclipse Foundation","product":"eclipse-threadx/netxduo","affected":["eclipse-threadx/netxduo <= 6.5.1"],"published":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-29T18:17:10.780","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102715","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/eclipse-threadx/netxduo/security/advisories/GHSA-2gf7-5224-5vrj","label":"emo@eclipse.org"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"cvssSource":"cna","ingestedAt":"2026-09-29T18:42:35.814Z","slug":"CVE-2026-102715","body":"## Overview\n\nAny host on the LAN can send two mDNS records and make the responder write past the end of its\n\n\n\ntransmit packet.\n\n\n\nThe string table stores each name in a slot rounded up to a multiple of four:\n\n\n\n```c\n\n\n\n/* addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:11436, 11443, 11447 */\n\n\n\nmemory_len = ((memory_len & 0xFFFFFFFC) + 8) & 0xFFFFFFFF;\n\n\n\n...\n\n\n\nlen = *((USHORT*)(p - 2));           /* slot size, not string length */\n\n\n\nif ((len == memory_len) && ... _nx_mdns_name_match(start, memory_ptr, memory_size) ...)\n\n\n\n```\n\n\n\nThe lookup that decides whether an incoming name is already stored compares the rounded slot size,\n\n\n\nso names of 12, 13, 14 and 15 characters share one bucket. A second name in the bucket is answered\n\n\n\nwith the pointer to the first, and the record then carries a string up to three bytes longer than\n\n\n\nthe length the caller accounted for. `_nx_mdns_packet_rr_add` (nxd_mdns.c:8911) sizes its only\n\n\n\nbound check from that stale length, and `_nx_mdns_name_string_encode` writes the real string.\n\n\n\nTwo PTR records are enough, both ordinary mDNS responses to a `_http._tcp` query, with owner names\n\n\n\nwhose lengths fall in the same bucket:\n\n\n\n```\n\n\n\n==87491==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow\n\n\n\nWRITE of size 1 at 0x611000000124 thread T5\n\n    #0 _nx_mdns_name_string_encode  addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:13096\n    #1 _nx_mdns_packet_rr_add       addons/mdns/nxd_mdns.c:8911\n\n\n0x611000000124 is 0 bytes to the right of 228-byte region\n\n\n\n```\n\n\n\nThe overflow is one to three bytes of attacker-influenced name data past `nx_packet_data_end`. In a\n\n\n\nnormal pool that lands in the next packet in the same pool rather than in a redzone, so the visible\n\n\n\neffect is a corrupted neighbouring packet or a corrupted pool free list rather than a clean crash.\n\n\n\nCompare the slot size against the stored string length before declaring a match, or keep the\n\n\n\nstring length in the slot header and return it to the caller so the encoder and the bound check\n\n\n\nagree.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":39,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":39.1,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}