Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-4179 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Openstack Compute and Havana

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

The security group extension in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Grizzly 2013.1.3, Havana before havana-3, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1664.

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.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2013-15373.NASL
    descriptionFixes 2 CVEs that were missed with the 2013.1.3 stable update Update to latest stable/grizzly 2013.1.3 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
    modified2013-09-05
    plugin id69785
    published2013-09-05
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/69785
    titleFedora 19 : openstack-nova-2013.1.3-2.fc19 (2013-15373)
    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 2013-15373.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(69785);
      script_version("1.7");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2256", "CVE-2013-4179", "CVE-2013-4185", "CVE-2013-4261");
      script_bugtraq_id(61637, 61639, 61692);
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2013-15373");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 19 : openstack-nova-2013.1.3-2.fc19 (2013-15373)");
      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:
    "Fixes 2 CVEs that were missed with the 2013.1.3 stable update Update
    to latest stable/grizzly 2013.1.3
    
    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=994809"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994816"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995172"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=999276"
      );
      # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115167.html
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4c469303"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected openstack-nova package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/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:openstack-nova");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/08/27");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/09/05");
      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:"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:"openstack-nova-2013.1.3-2.fc19")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "openstack-nova");
    }
    
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-2000-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that Nova did not properly enforce the is_public property when determining flavor access. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to obtain sensitive information in private flavors. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10. (CVE-2013-2256, CVE-2013-4278) Grant Murphy discovered that Nova would allow XML entity processing. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Nova API to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-4179) Vishvananda Ishaya discovered that Nova inefficiently handled network security group updates when Nova was configured to use nova-network. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2013-4185) Jaroslav Henner discovered that Nova did not properly handle certain inputs to the instance console when Nova was configured to use Apache Qpid. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service on the compute node running the instance. By default, Ubuntu uses RabbitMQ instead of Qpid. (CVE-2013-4261). 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id70579
    published2013-10-24
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70579
    titleUbuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : nova vulnerabilities (USN-2000-1)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2000-1. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
    # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
    # trademark of Canonical, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(70579);
      script_version("1.7");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:29");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2256", "CVE-2013-4179", "CVE-2013-4185", "CVE-2013-4261", "CVE-2013-4278");
      script_bugtraq_id(61637, 61639, 61692, 62016, 62200);
      script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2000-1");
    
      script_name(english:"Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : nova vulnerabilities (USN-2000-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "It was discovered that Nova did not properly enforce the is_public
    property when determining flavor access. An authenticated attacker
    could exploit this to obtain sensitive information in private flavors.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10. (CVE-2013-2256,
    CVE-2013-4278)
    
    Grant Murphy discovered that Nova would allow XML entity processing. A
    remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Nova API
    to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion. This issue only
    affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2013-4179)
    
    Vishvananda Ishaya discovered that Nova inefficiently handled network
    security group updates when Nova was configured to use nova-network.
    An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of
    service. (CVE-2013-4185)
    
    Jaroslav Henner discovered that Nova did not properly handle certain
    inputs to the instance console when Nova was configured to use Apache
    Qpid. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial
    of service on the compute node running the instance. By default,
    Ubuntu uses RabbitMQ instead of Qpid. (CVE-2013-4261).
    
    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."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/2000-1/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected python-nova package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-nova");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/09/16");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/10/23");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/10/24");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("ubuntu.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
    if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
    release = chomp(release);
    if (! preg(pattern:"^(12\.04|12\.10|13\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 / 13.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) 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, "Ubuntu", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"python-nova", pkgver:"2012.1.3+stable-20130423-e52e6912-0ubuntu1.2")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"python-nova", pkgver:"2012.2.4-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.04", pkgname:"python-nova", pkgver:"1:2013.1.3-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
        extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "python-nova");
    }
    
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-2005-1.NASL
    descriptionRongze Zhu discovered that the Cinder LVM driver did not zero out data when deleting snapshots. This could expose sensitive information to authenticated users when subsequent servers use the volume. (CVE-2013-4183) Grant Murphy discovered that Cinder would allow XML entity processing. A remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit this using the Cinder API to cause a denial of service via resource exhaustion. (CVE-2013-4179, CVE-2013-4202). 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id70584
    published2013-10-24
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70584
    titleUbuntu 13.04 : cinder vulnerabilities (USN-2005-1)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2013:1199
rpms
  • openstack-nova-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-api-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-cells-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-cert-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-common-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-compute-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-conductor-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-console-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-doc-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-network-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-objectstore-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • openstack-nova-scheduler-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost
  • python-nova-0:2013.1.3-3.el6ost