Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-2310 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Net-Snmp
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The AgentX subagent in Net-SNMP before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) by sending a multi-object request with an Object ID (OID) containing more subids than previous requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-6151.
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.
- 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 family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2166-1.NASL description Ken Farnen discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX timeouts. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash or to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6151) It was discovered that the Net-SNMP ICMP-MIB incorrectly validated input. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-2284) Viliam Pucik discovered that the Net-SNMP perl trap handler incorrectly handled NULL arguments. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-2285) It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX multi-object requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2014-2310). 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 2020-03-18 modified 2014-04-15 plugin id 73513 published 2014-04-15 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/73513 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : net-snmp vulnerabilities (USN-2166-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2166-1. 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(73513); script_version("1.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-6151", "CVE-2014-2284", "CVE-2014-2285", "CVE-2014-2310"); script_bugtraq_id(64048, 65867, 65968, 66005); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2166-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : net-snmp vulnerabilities (USN-2166-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Ken Farnen discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX timeouts. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash or to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6151) It was discovered that the Net-SNMP ICMP-MIB incorrectly validated input. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-2284) Viliam Pucik discovered that the Net-SNMP perl trap handler incorrectly handled NULL arguments. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-2285) It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX multi-object requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2014-2310). 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/2166-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libsnmp15 and / or libsnmp30 packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsnmp15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsnmp30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts"); 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:13.10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/12/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/04/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/04/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 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:"^(10\.04|12\.04|12\.10|13\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 12.04 / 12.10 / 13.10", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libsnmp15", pkgver:"5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.3")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libsnmp15", pkgver:"5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.2")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"libsnmp15", pkgver:"5.4.3~dfsg-2.5ubuntu1.1")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"13.10", pkgname:"libsnmp30", pkgver:"5.7.2~dfsg-8ubuntu1.1")) 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, "libsnmp15 / libsnmp30"); }
NASL family Solaris Local Security Checks NASL id SOLARIS11_NET-SNMP_20140915.NASL description The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang) by causing the AgentX subagent to timeout. (CVE-2012-6151) - The AgentX subagent in Net-SNMP before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) by sending a multi-object request with an Object ID (OID) containing more subids than previous requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-6151. (CVE-2014-2310) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 80706 published 2015-01-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/80706 title Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : net-snmp (multiple_vulnerabilities_in_net_snmp) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the Oracle Third Party software advisories. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(80706); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:25"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-6151", "CVE-2014-2310"); script_name(english:"Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : net-snmp (multiple_vulnerabilities_in_net_snmp)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the 'entire' version."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang) by causing the AgentX subagent to timeout. (CVE-2012-6151) - The AgentX subagent in Net-SNMP before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) by sending a multi-object request with an Object ID (OID) containing more subids than previous requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-6151. (CVE-2014-2310)" ); # https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/thirdparty-patch-map-1482893.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4a913f44" ); # https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-net-snmp script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b5ebc4b4" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Solaris 11.2.2.5.0."); 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:oracle:solaris:11.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:solaris:net-snmp"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/09/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/01/19"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Solaris Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Solaris11/release", "Host/Solaris11/pkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); include("solaris.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Solaris11/release"); if (isnull(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Solaris11"); pkg_list = solaris_pkg_list_leaves(); if (isnull (pkg_list)) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING, "Solaris pkg-list packages"); if (empty_or_null(egrep(string:pkg_list, pattern:"^net-snmp$"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "net-snmp"); flag = 0; if (solaris_check_release(release:"0.5.11-0.175.2.2.0.5.0", sru:"SRU 11.2.2.5.0") > 0) flag++; if (flag) { error_extra = 'Affected package : net-snmp\n' + solaris_get_report2(); error_extra = ereg_replace(pattern:"version", replace:"OS version", string:error_extra); if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:error_extra); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, "net-snmp");
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_LIBSNMP15-140314.NASL description The net-snmp remote service received security and bugfixes : - A remote denial of service flaw in Linux implementation of ICMP-MIB has been fixed. (CVE-2014-2284) - snmptrapd could have crashed when using a trap with empty community string. This has been fixed. (CVE-2014-2285) - The AgentX subagent of net-snmp could have been stalled when a manager sent a multi-object request with a different number of subids. (CVE-2014-2310) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-04-15 plugin id 73511 published 2014-04-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/73511 title SuSE 11.3 Security Update : net-snmp (SAT Patch Number 9015)
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/513
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/527
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57870
- http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/eb816330a1887798d844d2fd5dc6482002123cbd/
- http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/patches/1113/
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2166-1
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684388