Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-5295 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
LOW
network
low complexity
openstack
redhat
oracle
fedoraproject
CWE-119
nessus
NVD
Published: 2016-01-20
Updated: 2023-02-13

Summary

The template-validate command in OpenStack Orchestration API (Heat) before 2015.1.3 (kilo) and 5.0.x before 5.0.1 (liberty) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or determine the existence of local files via the resource type in a template, as demonstrated by file:///dev/zero.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Openstack
2
Application
Redhat
1
OS
Oracle
1
OS
Fedoraproject
1

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 familyFedora Local Security Checks
NASL idFEDORA_2016-FE5B9DA308.NASL
descriptionBackport of the patch for CVE-2015-5295 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 seen2020-06-05
modified2016-03-04
plugin id89649
published2016-03-04
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89649
titleFedora 23 : openstack-heat-2015.1.2-2.fc23 (2016-fe5b9da308)
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 2016-fe5b9da308.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(89649);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-5295");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-fe5b9da308");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 23 : openstack-heat-2015.1.2-2.fc23 (2016-fe5b9da308)");
  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:
"Backport of the patch for CVE-2015-5295

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=1298295"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176700.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?68feebea"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected openstack-heat package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:openstack-heat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/02/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/04");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 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:"^23([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 23.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:"FC23", reference:"openstack-heat-2015.1.2-2.fc23")) 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, "openstack-heat");
}

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2016:0266
rpms
  • openstack-heat-api-0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cfn-0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch-0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-common-0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-engine-0:2015.1.2-9.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cfn-0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch-0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-common-0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-engine-0:2014.1.5-7.el6ost
  • openstack-heat-api-0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cfn-0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch-0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-common-0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-engine-0:2014.1.5-7.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cfn-0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch-0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-common-0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost
  • openstack-heat-engine-0:2014.2.3-11.el7ost

References