Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-8538 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Libdwarf Project Libdwarf

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
libdwarf-project
CWE-20
nessus

Summary

dwarf_leb.c in libdwarf allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV).

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Libdwarf_Project
162

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.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-669.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities were discovered in dwarfutils, a tool and library for reading/consuming and writing/producing DWARF debugging information. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : CVE-2015-8538 A specially crafted ELF file can cause a segmentation fault. CVE-2015-8750 A specially crafted ELF file can cause a NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2016-2050 Out-of-bounds write CVE-2016-2091 Out-of-bounds read CVE-2016-5034 Out-of-bounds write CVE-2016-5036 Out-of-bounds read CVE-2016-5038 Out-of-bounds read CVE-2016-5039 Out-of-bounds read CVE-2016-5042 A specially crafted DWARF section can cause an infinite loop, reading from increasing memory addresses until the application crashes. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2016-10-20
    plugin id94143
    published2016-10-20
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94143
    titleDebian DLA-669-1 : dwarfutils security update
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-669-1. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(94143);
      script_version("2.7");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8538", "CVE-2015-8750", "CVE-2016-2050", "CVE-2016-2091", "CVE-2016-5034", "CVE-2016-5036", "CVE-2016-5038", "CVE-2016-5039", "CVE-2016-5042");
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DLA-669-1 : dwarfutils security update");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Several vulnerabilities were discovered in dwarfutils, a tool and
    library for reading/consuming and writing/producing DWARF debugging
    information. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
    identifies the following issues :
    
    CVE-2015-8538
    
    A specially crafted ELF file can cause a segmentation fault.
    
    CVE-2015-8750
    
    A specially crafted ELF file can cause a NULL pointer dereference.
    
    CVE-2016-2050
    
    Out-of-bounds write
    
    CVE-2016-2091
    
    Out-of-bounds read
    
    CVE-2016-5034
    
    Out-of-bounds write
    
    CVE-2016-5036
    
    Out-of-bounds read
    
    CVE-2016-5038
    
    Out-of-bounds read
    
    CVE-2016-5039
    
    Out-of-bounds read
    
    CVE-2016-5042
    
    A specially crafted DWARF section can cause an infinite loop, reading
    from increasing memory addresses until the application crashes.
    
    For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
    20120410-2+deb7u2.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your dwarfutils packages.
    
    NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
    block directly from the DLA 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/10/msg00024.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/dwarfutils"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Upgrade the affected dwarfdump, and libdwarf-dev packages."
      );
      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_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/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:debian:debian_linux:dwarfdump");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libdwarf-dev");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/10/19");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/10/20");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("debian_package.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"dwarfdump", reference:"20120410-2+deb7u2")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libdwarf-dev", reference:"20120410-2+deb7u2")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_warning(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2019-2204.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the versions of the libdwarf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - dwarf_leb.c in libdwarf allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SIGSEGV).(CVE-2015-8538) - The dwarf_dealloc function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.(CVE-2016-5043) - The dwarf_get_aranges_list function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via a crafted DWARF section.(CVE-2016-5042) - libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a large length value in a compilation unit header.(CVE-2016-5040) - The get_attr_value function in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted object with all-bits on.(CVE-2016-5039) - The dwarf_get_macro_startend_file function in dwarf_macro5.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted string offset for .debug_str.(CVE-2016-5038) - The dump_block function in print_sections.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted frame data.(CVE-2016-5036) - dwarf_elf_access.c in libdwarf before 20160923 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted file, related to relocation records.(CVE-2016-5034) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-08
    modified2019-11-08
    plugin id130666
    published2019-11-08
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130666
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP5 : libdwarf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2204)