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Low · 2.4 CVE-2026-22213 EUVD-2026-2394GHSA-xjvw-vc5c-qgj5

RIOT OS <= 2026.01-devel-317 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in tapslip6 Utility

Published Jan 12, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

RIOT OS versions up to and including 2026.01-devel-317 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the tapslip6 utility. The vulnerability is caused by unsafe string concatenation in the devopen() function, which constructs a device path using unbounded user-controlled input. The utility uses strcpy() and strcat() to concatenate the fixed prefix '/dev/' with a user-supplied device name provided via the -s command-line option without bounds checking. This allows an attacker to supply an excessively long device name and overflow a fixed-size stack buffer, leading to process crashes and memory corruption.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
RIOT RIOT OS ≤ 2026.01-devel-317 —

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