Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-8321 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Aircrack-Ng
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the gps_tracker function in airodump-ng.c in Aircrack-ng before 1.2 RC 1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code or gain privileges via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-14247.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2014-8321, CVE-2014-8322, CVE-2014-8323, CVE-2014-8324 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 2014-11-14 plugin id 79237 published 2014-11-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79237 title Fedora 20 : aircrack-ng-1.2-0.3.rc1.fc20 (2014-14247) 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 2014-14247. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(79237); script_version("1.9"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8321", "CVE-2014-8322", "CVE-2014-8323", "CVE-2014-8324"); script_bugtraq_id(71068, 71084, 71085); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-14247"); script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : aircrack-ng-1.2-0.3.rc1.fc20 (2014-14247)"); 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: "Security fix for CVE-2014-8321, CVE-2014-8322, CVE-2014-8323, CVE-2014-8324 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=1159812" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/143595.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?11621d97" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected aircrack-ng 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:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); 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:aircrack-ng"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/14"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); 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:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC20", reference:"aircrack-ng-1.2-0.3.rc1.fc20")) 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, "aircrack-ng"); }
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201411-08.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201411-08 (Aircrack-ng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Aircrack-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A local attacker can use this flaw to execute arbitrary code or gain escalated privileges. A remote attacker execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or 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 79416 published 2014-11-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79416 title GLSA-201411-08 : Aircrack-ng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201411-08. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(79416); script_version("1.8"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/06"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8321", "CVE-2014-8322", "CVE-2014-8323", "CVE-2014-8324"); script_bugtraq_id(71068, 71084, 71085, 71342); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201411-08"); script_name(english:"GLSA-201411-08 : Aircrack-ng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201411-08 (Aircrack-ng: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Aircrack-ng. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A local attacker can use this flaw to execute arbitrary code or gain escalated privileges. A remote attacker execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201411-08" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "All Aircrack-ng users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-wireless/aircrack-ng-1.2_rc1'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); 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:gentoo:linux:aircrack-ng"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/10/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"net-wireless/aircrack-ng", unaffected:make_list("ge 1.2_rc1"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 1.2_rc1"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Aircrack-ng"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-14283.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2014-8321, CVE-2014-8322, CVE-2014-8323, CVE-2014-8324 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 2014-11-11 plugin id 79098 published 2014-11-11 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79098 title Fedora 21 : aircrack-ng-1.2-0.5rc1.fc21 (2014-14283) 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 2014-14283. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(79098); script_version("1.6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8321", "CVE-2014-8322", "CVE-2014-8323", "CVE-2014-8324"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-14283"); script_name(english:"Fedora 21 : aircrack-ng-1.2-0.5rc1.fc21 (2014-14283)"); 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: "Security fix for CVE-2014-8321, CVE-2014-8322, CVE-2014-8323, CVE-2014-8324 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=1159812" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/143216.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?23343a7b" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected aircrack-ng package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:aircrack-ng"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/11"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 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:"^21([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 21.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC21", reference:"aircrack-ng-1.2-0.5rc1.fc21")) 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, "aircrack-ng"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-14233.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2014-8321, CVE-2014-8322, CVE-2014-8323, CVE-2014-8324 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 2014-11-14 plugin id 79236 published 2014-11-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79236 title Fedora 19 : aircrack-ng-1.2-0.3.rc1.fc19 (2014-14233) 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 2014-14233. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(79236); script_version("1.9"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8321", "CVE-2014-8322", "CVE-2014-8323", "CVE-2014-8324"); script_bugtraq_id(71068, 71084, 71085); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-14233"); script_name(english:"Fedora 19 : aircrack-ng-1.2-0.3.rc1.fc19 (2014-14233)"); 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: "Security fix for CVE-2014-8321, CVE-2014-8322, CVE-2014-8323, CVE-2014-8324 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=1159812" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/143606.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4d33c98d" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected aircrack-ng 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:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"); 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:aircrack-ng"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/05"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/11/14"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); 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:"aircrack-ng-1.2-0.3.rc1.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, "aircrack-ng"); }
References
- https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/pull/13
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128943/Aircrack-ng-1.2-Beta-3-DoS-Code-Execution.html
- https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng/commit/ff70494dd389ba570dbdbf36f217c28d4381c6b5/
- http://aircrack-ng.blogspot.com/2014/10/aircrack-ng-12-release-candidate-1.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98458