Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-4385 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Call-Cc Chicken
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Buffer overflow in the "read-string!" procedure in the "extras" unit in CHICKEN stable before 4.8.0.5 and development snapshots before 4.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.
Vulnerable Configurations
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.
- 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 family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-17912.NASL description Fix for CVE-2013-4385. 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 2013-11-26 plugin id 71081 published 2013-11-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/71081 title Fedora 18 : chicken-4.8.0.4-4.fc18 (2013-17912) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-17868.NASL description Fix for CVE-2013-4385. 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 2013-09-30 plugin id 70209 published 2013-09-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/70209 title Fedora 19 : chicken-4.8.0.4-4.fc19 (2013-17868) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201612-54.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201612-54 (Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chicken. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. 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 96229 published 2017-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96229 title GLSA-201612-54 : Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-22130.NASL description Latest upstream release. Upstream patch for CVE-2013-4385. 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 2014-02-10 plugin id 72402 published 2014-02-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/72402 title Fedora 20 : chicken-4.8.0.5-1.fc20 (2013-22130)
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-09/msg00000.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-09/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55009
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62690
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54