Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-6262 - Use of Externally-Controlled Format String vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in the python module in RRDtool, as used in Zenoss Core before 4.2.5 and other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted third argument to the rrdtool.graph function, aka ZEN-15415, a related issue to CVE-2013-2131.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Format String Injection An attacker includes formatting characters in a string input field on the target application. Most applications assume that users will provide static text and may respond unpredictably to the presence of formatting character. For example, in certain functions of the C programming languages such as printf, the formatting character %s will print the contents of a memory location expecting this location to identify a string and the formatting character %n prints the number of DWORD written in the memory. An attacker can use this to read or write to memory locations or files, or simply to manipulate the value of the resulting text in unexpected ways. Reading or writing memory may result in program crashes and writing memory could result in the execution of arbitrary code if the attacker can write to the program stack.
- String Format Overflow in syslog() This attack targets the format string vulnerabilities in the syslog() function. An attacker would typically inject malicious input in the format string parameter of the syslog function. This is a common problem, and many public vulnerabilities and associated exploits have been posted.
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DLA-2131.NASL |
| description | It was discovered that there was a regression in a previous fix, which resulted in the following error : ERROR: cannot compile regular expression: Error while compiling regular expression ^(?:[^%]+|%%)*%[+- 0#]?[0-9]*([.][0-9]+)?l[eEfF](?:[^%]+|%%)*%s(?:[^%]+|%%)*$ at char 18: range out of order in character class (^(?:[^%]+|%%)*%[+- 0#]?[0-9]*([.][0-9]+)?l[eEfF](?:[^%]+|%%)*%s(?:[^%]+|%%)*$) For Debian 8 |
| last seen | 2020-03-17 |
| modified | 2020-03-02 |
| plugin id | 134182 |
| published | 2020-03-02 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134182 |
| title | Debian DLA-2131-2 : rrdtool regression update |
| code | |
References
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dHAc4PxUbs-4Dxzm1wSCE0sMz5UCMY6SW3PlMHSyuuQ/edit?usp=sharing
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71540
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/449452
- https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x/commit/64ed5314af1255ab6dded45f70b39cdeab5ae2ec
- https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x/pull/532
- https://github.com/oetiker/rrdtool-1.x/commit/85261a013112e278c90224033f5b0592ee387786
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00003.html