Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-2897 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
gnome
redhat
debian
CWE-20
critical
nessus
NVD
Published: 2019-11-12
Updated: 2019-11-14

Summary

gdk-pixbuf through 2.31.1 has GIF loader buffer overflow when initializing decompression tables due to an input validation flaw

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnome
85
OS
Redhat
2
OS
Debian
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_11_GDK-PIXBUF-120531.NASL
    descriptionThis update of gdk-pixbuf fixes multiple buffer overflows that could have caused a crash or potentially have allowed heap corruptions. (CVE-2011-2485 / CVE-2012-2370 / CVE-2011-2897)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2013-01-25
    plugin id64145
    published2013-01-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64145
    titleSuSE 11.1 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (SAT Patch Number 6367)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is
# copyright (C) Novell, Inc.
#

if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0);

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(64145);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2485", "CVE-2011-2897", "CVE-2012-2370");

  script_name(english:"SuSE 11.1 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (SAT Patch Number 6367)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update of gdk-pixbuf fixes multiple buffer overflows that could
have caused a crash or potentially have allowed heap corruptions.
(CVE-2011-2485 / CVE-2012-2370 / CVE-2011-2897)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702028"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709852"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=762735"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2485.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2897.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2370.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply SAT patch number 6367.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gdk-pixbuf");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gdk-pixbuf-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/05/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/25");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)11") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SuSE 11", cpu);

pl = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(pl) || int(pl) != 1) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11.1");


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"i586", reference:"gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-294.26.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-294.26.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"gdk-pixbuf-32bit-0.22.0-294.26.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_GDK-PIXBUF-8158.NASL
    descriptionThis update of gdk-pixbuf fixes multiple buffer overflows that could have caused a crash or potentially have allowed heap corruptions. (CVE-2011-2485 / CVE-2012-2370 / CVE-2011-2897)
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2012-07-06
    plugin id59854
    published2012-07-06
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/59854
    titleSuSE 10 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (ZYPP Patch Number 8158)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) Novell, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(59854);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2485", "CVE-2011-2897", "CVE-2012-2370");

  script_name(english:"SuSE 10 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (ZYPP Patch Number 8158)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update of gdk-pixbuf fixes multiple buffer overflows that could
have caused a crash or potentially have allowed heap corruptions.
(CVE-2011-2485 / CVE-2012-2370 / CVE-2011-2897)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2485.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2897.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2370.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply ZYPP patch number 8158.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/05/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/07/06");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) exit(0, "Local checks are not enabled.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release")) exit(0, "The host is not running SuSE.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) exit(1, "Could not obtain the list of installed packages.");

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) exit(1, "Failed to determine the architecture type.");
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") exit(1, "Local checks for SuSE 10 on the '"+cpu+"' architecture have not been implemented.");


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, reference:"gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-93.9.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:4, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"gdk-pixbuf-32bit-0.22.0-93.9.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, reference:"gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-93.9.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:4, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"gdk-pixbuf-32bit-0.22.0-93.9.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else exit(0, "The host is not affected.");

References