CVE-2021-40546

Tenda AC6 US_AC6V4.0RTL_V02.03.01.26_cn.bin allows attackers (who have the administrator password) to cause a denial of service (device crash) via a long string in the wifiPwd_5G parameter to /goform/setWifi.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://github.com/doudoudedi/buffer_overflow/blob/main/Tenda%20AC6%20V4.0-Denial%20of%20Service%20Vulnerability.md