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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-124000 EUVD-2026-120223

ION-DTN 2.1.0-4.2.0 Heap Buffer Under-allocation DoS in amsd

Published Nov 9, 2026 · Updated Nov 9, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

NASA JPL ION-DTN 2.1.0 through 4.2.0 contains a heap buffer under-allocation vulnerability in the Asynchronous Message Service daemon (amsd) that allows a rogue or misconfigured peer to trigger an out-of-bounds write by sending crafted Meta-AMS (MAMS) configuration management messages that are processed without cryptographic authentication. Attackers can exploit the insufficient buffer size calculation for the internal state-event object to crash the active Configuration Server thread, causing a denial of service and potentially destabilizing subsequent shared-memory allocations in amsd.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nasa-jpl ION-DTN 2.1.0 – ≤ 4.2.0 4.2.1-a.2

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