CVE-2023-39540 — A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ICMP and ICMPv6 parsing function

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ICMP and ICMPv6 parsing functionality of Weston Embedded uC-TCP-IP v3.06.01. A specially crafted network packet can lead to an out-of-bounds read. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerabil

01What is this vulnerability?

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the ICMP and ICMPv6 parsing functionality of Weston Embedded uC-TCP-IP v3.06.01. A specially crafted network packet can lead to an out-of-bounds read. An attacker can send a malicious packet to trigger this vulnerability.This vulnerability concerns a denial of service within the parsing an IPv4 ICMP packet.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Silicon Labs	Gecko Platform	4.3.1.0
Weston Embedded	uC	TCP-IP — v3.06.01

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-02-20T14:45:03.230Z
• Last modified: 2025-11-04T18:16:34.752Z

09References

• talosintelligence.com — https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1828