Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-4561 - Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service vulnerability in libssh
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The (1) publickey_make_dss, (2) publickey_make_rsa, (3) signature_from_string, (4) ssh_do_sign, and (5) ssh_sign_session_id functions in keys.c in libssh before 0.5.3 free "an invalid pointer on an error path," which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 6 |
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-18687.NASL description This is an important SECURITY and maintenance release in order to address CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561 and CVE-2012-4562. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-12-07 plugin id 63173 published 2012-12-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63173 title Fedora 16 : libssh-0.5.3-1.fc16 (2012-18687) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2012-18687. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(63173); script_version("1.8"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-4559", "CVE-2012-4560", "CVE-2012-4561", "CVE-2012-4562", "CVE-2012-6063"); script_bugtraq_id(56604); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2012-18687"); script_name(english:"Fedora 16 : libssh-0.5.3-1.fc16 (2012-18687)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This is an important SECURITY and maintenance release in order to address CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561 and CVE-2012-4562. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871612" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871614" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871617" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871620" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/093926.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?95d4374a" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libssh package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libssh"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/11/21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/12/07"); 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:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^16([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 16.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC16", reference:"libssh-0.5.3-1.fc16")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libssh"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-18610.NASL description This is an important SECURITY and maintenance release in order to address CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561 and CVE-2012-4562. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-11-27 plugin id 63054 published 2012-11-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63054 title Fedora 18 : libssh-0.5.3-1.fc18 (2012-18610) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1640-1.NASL description Xi Wang and Florian Weimer discovered that libssh incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561, CVE-2012-4562). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63058 published 2012-11-27 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63058 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : libssh vulnerabilities (USN-1640-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-836.NASL description This update of libssh fixed various memory management issues that could have security implications (Code execution, Denial of Service). last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74829 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74829 title openSUSE Security Update : libssh (openSUSE-SU-2012:1622-1) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-2577.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libssh by Florian Weimer and Xi Wang : - CVE-2012-4559: multiple double free() flaws - CVE-2012-4561: multiple invalid free() flaws - CVE-2012-4562: multiple improper overflow checks Those could lead to a denial of service by making an SSH client linked to libssh crash, and maybe even arbitrary code execution. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-12-03 plugin id 63125 published 2012-12-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63125 title Debian DSA-2577-1 : libssh - several vulnerabilities NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2012-175.NASL description Multiple double free(), buffer overflow, invalid free() and improper overflow checks vulnerabilities was found and corrected in libssh (CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561, CVE-2012-4562). The updated packages have been upgraded to the 0.5.3 version which is not affected by these issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63104 published 2012-11-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63104 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libssh (MDVSA-2012:175) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2012-840.NASL description This update of libssh fixed various memory management issues that could have security implications (Code execution, Denial of Service). last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-13 plugin id 74834 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74834 title openSUSE Security Update : libssh (openSUSE-SU-2012:1620-1) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201402-26.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201402-26 (libssh: Arbitrary code execution) Multiple buffer overflow, double free, and integer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in libssh. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 72640 published 2014-02-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72640 title GLSA-201402-26 : libssh: Arbitrary code execution NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2013-045.NASL description Updated libssh packages fix security vulnerabilities : Multiple double free flaws, buffer overflow flaws, invalid free flaws, and improper overflow checks in libssh before 0.5.3 could enable a denial of service attack against libssh clients, or possibly arbitrary code execution (CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561 and CVE-2012-4562). Yong Chuan Koh discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain negotiation requests. A remote attacker could use this to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2013-0176). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 66059 published 2013-04-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/66059 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libssh (MDVSA-2013:045) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-18677.NASL description This is an important SECURITY and maintenance release in order to address CVE-2012-4559, CVE-2012-4560, CVE-2012-4561 and CVE-2012-4562. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-11-29 plugin id 63089 published 2012-11-29 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63089 title Fedora 17 : libssh-0.5.3-1.fc17 (2012-18677) NASL family Slackware Local Security Checks NASL id SLACKWARE_SSA_2012-341-02.NASL description New libssh packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix security issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63168 published 2012-12-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63168 title Slackware 14.0 / current : libssh (SSA:2012-341-02)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093313.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093474.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00021.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2577
- http://www.libssh.org/2012/11/20/libssh-0-5-3-security-release/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:175
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56604
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1640-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871617
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80220