Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-2124 - Local Denial of Service vulnerability in libguestfs 'inspect-fs.c' Double Free

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
libguestfs
nessus

Summary

Double free vulnerability in inspect-fs.c in LibguestFS 1.20.x before 1.20.7, 1.21.x, 1.22.0, and 1.23.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via empty guest files. Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html "CWE-415: Double Free"

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Libguestfs
49

Nessus

NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
NASL idFEDORA_2013-10029.NASL
descriptionNew upstream version 1.22.2. Contains complete fix for CVE-2013-2124. Fixes a potential denial of service attack when examining untrusted guests. For more information see: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-May/msg00079.html 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 seen2020-03-17
modified2013-07-12
plugin id67262
published2013-07-12
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67262
titleFedora 19 : libguestfs-1.22.2-1.fc19 (2013-10029)
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 2013-10029.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(67262);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_bugtraq_id(60205);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2013-10029");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 19 : libguestfs-1.22.2-1.fc19 (2013-10029)");
  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:
"New upstream version 1.22.2. Contains complete fix for CVE-2013-2124.
Fixes a potential denial of service attack when examining untrusted
guests. For more information see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-May/msg00079.html

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."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/108881.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?0a2eb3ea"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-May/msg00079.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected libguestfs package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/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:libguestfs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/06/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/07/12");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  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:"^19([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 19.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:"FC19", reference:"libguestfs-1.22.2-1.fc19")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libguestfs");
}