Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-10188 - Use After Free vulnerability in Bitlbee
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a file transfer connection to expire.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3853.NASL description It was discovered that bitlbee, an IRC to other chat networks gateway, contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (via application crash), or potentially execute arbitrary commands. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100178 published 2017-05-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100178 title Debian DSA-3853-1 : bitlbee - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3853. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(100178); script_version("3.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:38"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10188", "CVE-2016-10189"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3853"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3853-1 : bitlbee - security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that bitlbee, an IRC to other chat networks gateway, contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (via application crash), or potentially execute arbitrary commands." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/bitlbee" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3853" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the bitlbee packages. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.2-2+deb8u1. For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 3.5-1." ); 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_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:bitlbee"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/16"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 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:"8.0", prefix:"bitlbee", reference:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"bitlbee-common", reference:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"bitlbee-dev", reference:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"bitlbee-libpurple", reference:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"bitlbee-plugin-otr", reference:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-832.NASL description CVE-2017-5668 Fix for incomplete fix for last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-02-24 plugin id 97356 published 2017-02-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97356 title Debian DLA-832-1 : bitlbee 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-832-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(97356); script_version("3.6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10188", "CVE-2016-10189", "CVE-2017-5668"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-832-1 : bitlbee 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: "CVE-2017-5668 Fix for incomplete fix for 'NULL pointer dereference with file transfer request from unknown contacts'. (Though this package wasn't in Wheezy with this issue, I mention it here. The fix was done with the second patch for CVE-2016-10189) CVE-2016-10189 NULL pointer dereference with file transfer request from unknown contacts. CVE-2016-10188 deactivate any incoming file transfer for bitlbee This affects any libpurple protocol when used through BitlBee. It does not affect other libpurple-based clients such as pidgin. 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/2017/02/msg00023.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/bitlbee" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages."); 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_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:bitlbee"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bitlbee-common"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bitlbee-dev"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bitlbee-libpurple"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:bitlbee-plugin-otr"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/02/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/02/24"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 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:"bitlbee", reference:"3.0.5-1.2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bitlbee-common", reference:"3.0.5-1.2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bitlbee-dev", reference:"3.0.5-1.2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bitlbee-libpurple", reference:"3.0.5-1.2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"bitlbee-plugin-otr", reference:"3.0.5-1.2+deb7u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3853
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3853
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/11
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95935
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95935
- https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1281
- https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1281