CVE-2026-41429

Improper validation of NBNS name_len in arduino-esp32 NetBIOS leads to memory corruption

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Apr 24, 2026
Updated
Apr 27, 2026
Reserved
Apr 20, 2026

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Description

arduino-esp32 is an Arduino core for the ESP32, ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3, ESP32-C3, ESP32-C6 and ESP32-H2 microcontrollers. Prior to 3.3.8, there is a remotely reachable memory corruption issue in the NBNS packet handling path. When NetBIOS is enabled by calling NBNS.begin(...), the device listens on UDP port 137 and processes untrusted NBNS requests from the local network. The request parser trusts the attacker-controlled name_len field without enforcing a bound consistent with the fixed-size destination buffers used later in the flow. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.3.8.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
arduino-esp32espressif
  • < 3.3.8Affected

References

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