Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-6587 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 4.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
openafs
debian
CWE-119
nessus

Summary

The vlserver in OpenAFS before 1.6.13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted regular expression in a VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Openafs
170
OS
Debian
2

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 familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3320.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that OpenAFS, the implementation of the distributed filesystem AFS, contained several flaws that could result in information leak, denial-of-service or kernel panic.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id85129
    published2015-07-31
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/85129
    titleDebian DSA-3320-1 : openafs - security update
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-342.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been found and solved in the distributed file system OpenAFS : CVE-2015-3282 vos leaked stack data clear on the wire when updating vldb entries. CVE-2015-3283 OpenAFS allowed remote attackers to spoof bos commands via unspecified vectors. CVE-2015-3285 pioctl wrongly used the pointer related to the RPC, allowing local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and kernel panic) via a crafted OSD FS command. CVE-2015-6587 vlserver allowed remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted regular expression in a VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC. CVE-2015-7762 and CVE-2015-7763 (
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2015-11-19
    plugin id86920
    published2015-11-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/86920
    titleDebian DLA-342-1 : openafs security update