Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-2195 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
botan-project
debian
CWE-119
critical
nessus

Summary

Integer overflow in the PointGFp constructor in Botan before 1.10.11 and 1.11.x before 1.11.27 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ECC point, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Botan_Project
197
OS
Debian
1

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 familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201612-38.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201612-38 (Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id95741
    published2016-12-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/95741
    titleGLSA-201612-38 : Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201612-38.
    #
    # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2016 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(95741);
      script_version("$Revision: 3.1 $");
      script_cvs_date("$Date: 2016/12/13 18:01:19 $");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2194", "CVE-2016-2195");
      script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201612-38");
    
      script_name(english:"GLSA-201612-38 : Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities");
      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-201612-38
    (Botan: Multiple vulnerabilities)
    
        Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Botan. Please review
          the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
      
    Impact :
    
        A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
          privileges of the process, or cause 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/201612-38"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:
    "All Botan users should upgrade to the latest version:
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-libs/botan-1.10.12'"
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A: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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:botan");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/13");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/13");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      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:"dev-libs/botan", unaffected:make_list("ge 1.10.12"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 1.10.12"))) 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, "Botan");
    }
    
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-3565.NASL
    descriptionSeveral security vulnerabilities were found in botan1.10, a C++ library which provides support for many common cryptographic operations, including encryption, authentication, X.509v3 certificates and CRLs. - CVE-2015-5726 The BER decoder would crash due to reading from offset 0 of an empty vector if it encountered a BIT STRING which did not contain any data at all. This can be used to easily crash applications reading untrusted ASN.1 data, but does not seem exploitable for code execution. - CVE-2015-5727 The BER decoder would allocate a fairly arbitrary amount of memory in a length field, even if there was no chance the read request would succeed. This might cause the process to run out of memory or invoke the OOM killer. - CVE-2015-7827 Use constant time PKCS #1 unpadding to avoid possible side channel attack against RSA decryption - CVE-2016-2194 Infinite loop in modular square root algorithm. The ressol function implementing the Tonelli-Shanks algorithm for finding square roots could be sent into a nearly infinite loop due to a misplaced conditional check. This could occur if a composite modulus is provided, as this algorithm is only defined for primes. This function is exposed to attacker controlled input via the OS2ECP function during ECC point decompression. - CVE-2016-2195 Fix Heap overflow on invalid ECC point. - CVE-2016-2849 Use constant time modular inverse algorithm to avoid possible side channel attack against ECDSA.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id90841
    published2016-05-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90841
    titleDebian DSA-3565-1 : botan1.10 - security update
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_4CD9B19FF66D11E5B94C001999F8D30B.NASL
    descriptionThe botan developers reports : Infinite loop in modular square root algorithm - The ressol function implements the Tonelli-Shanks algorithm for finding square roots could be sent into a nearly infinite loop due to a misplaced conditional check. This could occur if a composite modulus is provided, as this algorithm is only defined for primes. This function is exposed to attacker controlled input via the OS2ECP function during ECC point decompression. Heap overflow on invalid ECC point - The PointGFp constructor did not check that the affine coordinate arguments were less than the prime, but then in curve multiplication assumed that both arguments if multiplied would fit into an integer twice the size of the prime. The bigint_mul and bigint_sqr functions received the size of the output buffer, but only used it to dispatch to a faster algorithm in cases where there was sufficient output space to call an unrolled multiplication function. The result is a heap overflow accessible via ECC point decoding, which accepted untrusted inputs. This is likely exploitable for remote code execution. On systems which use the mlock pool allocator, it would allow an attacker to overwrite memory held in secure_vector objects. After this point the write will hit the guard page at the end of the mmapped region so it probably could not be used for code execution directly, but would allow overwriting adjacent key material.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id90287
    published2016-04-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/90287
    titleFreeBSD : Multiple vulnerabilities in Botan (4cd9b19f-f66d-11e5-b94c-001999f8d30b)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-1C08D77B96.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2016-2194, CVE-2016-2195, CVE-2016-2196 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 id89488
    published2016-03-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89488
    titleFedora 22 : botan-1.10.12-1.fc22 / code-editor-2.8.1-13.fc22 / monotone-1.1-13.fc22 / etc (2016-1c08d77b96)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2016-FB9B356B74.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix for CVE-2016-2194, CVE-2016-2195, CVE-2016-2196 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 id89646
    published2016-03-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/89646
    titleFedora 23 : botan-1.10.12-1.fc23 / code-editor-2.8.1-13.fc23 / monotone-1.1-13.fc23 / etc (2016-fb9b356b74)