Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-4574 - Numeric Errors vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Off-by-one error in the append_utf8_value function in the DN decoder (dn.c) in Libksba before 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via invalid utf-8 encoded data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-28A56C76C1.NASL description Security fix for minor security issues CVE-2016-4574, CVE-2016-4579. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-14 plugin id 92072 published 2016-07-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92072 title Fedora 22 : libksba (2016-28a56c76c1) 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 FEDORA-2016-28a56c76c1. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(92072); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-4574", "CVE-2016-4579"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-28a56c76c1"); script_name(english:"Fedora 22 : libksba (2016-28a56c76c1)"); 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: "Security fix for minor security issues CVE-2016-4574, CVE-2016-4579. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. 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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-28a56c76c1" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libksba package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); 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_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libksba"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/06/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/07/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); 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:"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 = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^22([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 22", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC22", reference:"libksba-1.3.4-1.fc22")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libksba"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-697.NASL description This update for libksba fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-4579: Out-of-bounds read in _ksba_ber_parse_tl() - CVE-2016-4574: two OOB read access bugs (remote DoS) (bsc#979261) Also adding reliability fixes from v1.3.4. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-06-09 plugin id 91532 published 2016-06-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91532 title openSUSE Security Update : libksba (openSUSE-2016-697) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-2982-1.NASL description Hanno Bock discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled decoding certain BER data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubunt 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4353) Hanno Bock discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled decoding certain BER data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubunt 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4354, CVE-2016-4355) Hanno Bock discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled incorrect utf-8 strings when decoding certain DN data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubunt 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4356) Pascal Cuoq discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled incorrect utf-8 strings when decoding certain DN data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-4574) Pascal Cuoq discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled decoding certain data. An attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4579). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 91220 published 2016-05-18 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91220 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 15.10 / 16.04 LTS : libksba vulnerabilities (USN-2982-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-1509-1.NASL description This update for libksba fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-4579: Out-of-bounds read in _ksba_ber_parse_tl() - CVE-2016-4574: two OOB read access bugs (remote DoS) (bsc#979261) Also adding reliability fixes from v1.3.4. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 91653 published 2016-06-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91653 title SUSE SLES11 Security Update : libksba (SUSE-SU-2016:1509-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2016-1510-1.NASL description This update for libksba fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-4579: Out-of-bounds read in _ksba_ber_parse_tl() - CVE-2016-4574: two OOB read access bugs (remote DoS) (bsc#979261) Also adding reliability fixes from v1.3.4. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 91654 published 2016-06-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91654 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libksba (SUSE-SU-2016:1510-1) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-FD26F713E7.NASL description Security fix for minor security issues CVE-2016-4574, CVE-2016-4579. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-14 plugin id 92214 published 2016-07-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92214 title Fedora 23 : libksba (2016-fd26f713e7) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-1BCEC8B80D.NASL description Security fix for minor security issues CVE-2016-4574, CVE-2016-4579. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-07-14 plugin id 92064 published 2016-07-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92064 title Fedora 24 : libksba (2016-1bcec8b80d) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2016-624.NASL description This update for libksba fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - boo#979261: OOB read access bugs remote DoS - CVE-2016-4574: off-by-one OOB read access (incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-05-23 plugin id 91289 published 2016-05-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91289 title openSUSE Security Update : libksba (openSUSE-2016-624) NASL family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ALA_ALAS-2016-712.NASL description The following security-related issues were resolved : Incomplete fix for CVE-2016-4356 (CVE-2016-4574) Out-of-bounds read in _ksba_ber_parse_tl (CVE-2016-4579) last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 91471 published 2016-06-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91471 title Amazon Linux AMI : libksba (ALAS-2016-712)
References
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6be61daac047d8e6aa941eb103f8e71a1d4e3c75
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libksba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6be61daac047d8e6aa941eb103f8e71a1d4e3c75
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00087.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00087.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00028.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/10/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2982-1