Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-3951

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
freebsd
netbsd
nessus

Summary

The HZ module in the iconv implementation in FreeBSD 10.0 before p6 and NetBSD allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted argument to the iconv_open function. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2014-5384 is used for the NULL pointer dereference. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html" target="_blank">CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference</a>

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
1
OS
Netbsd
1

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_6F91A709600711E6A6C314DAE9D210B8.NASL
descriptionA NULL pointer dereference in the initialization code of the HZ module and an out of bounds array access in the initialization code of the VIQR module make iconv_open(3) calls involving HZ or VIQR result in an application crash. Impact : Services where an attacker can control the arguments of an iconv_open(3) call can be caused to crash resulting in a denial-of-service. For example, an email encoded in HZ may cause an email delivery service to crash if it converts emails to a more generic encoding like UTF-8 before applying filtering rules.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id92904
published2016-08-12
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92904
titleFreeBSD : FreeBSD -- iconv(3) NULL pointer dereference and out-of-bounds array access (6f91a709-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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# HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification,
# are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
# 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above
#    copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
#    disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified.
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#    distribution.
# 
# THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
# AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
# PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
# BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
# OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
# OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
# BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
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#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(92904);
  script_version("2.2");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:45");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3951");
  script_bugtraq_id(68178);
  script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-14:15.iconv");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- iconv(3) NULL pointer dereference and out-of-bounds array access (6f91a709-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A NULL pointer dereference in the initialization code of the HZ module
and an out of bounds array access in the initialization code of the
VIQR module make iconv_open(3) calls involving HZ or VIQR result in an
application crash. Impact : Services where an attacker can control the
arguments of an iconv_open(3) call can be caused to crash resulting in
a denial-of-service. For example, an email encoded in HZ may cause an
email delivery service to crash if it converts emails to a more
generic encoding like UTF-8 before applying filtering rules."
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/6f91a709-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?22e7e6cf"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  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: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:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/06/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/12");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=10.0<10.0_6")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");