RIOT is an open-source microcontroller operating system designed for Internet of Things devices and other embedded systems. From version 2023.07 through version 2026.07, nanocoap_fileserver callers in sys/net/application_layer/nanocoap/fileserver.c ignore a failure returned by _resp_init() when coap_build_reply() cannot fit a response header into the response buffer. A remote client can send a CoAP request with a sufficiently large extended token when nanocoap_token_ext is enabled, causing response initialization to fail while _get_file() or _get_directory() continues with stale response state. The path then reaches _calc_szx2() and its pdu->payload_len > reserve assertion, terminating the affected service or device task. No fixed release is available as of this review.
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/security/advisories/GHSA-39j3-3v73-5mj2
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/pull/22745
https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/commit/d3a47289c58d108575a19e623e4d3f647659e743