Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-10792 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in GNU Pspp 0.10.5Pre2
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
There is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function ll_insert() of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 0.11.0. For example, a crash was observed within the library code when attempting to convert invalid SPSS data into CSV format. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Vulnerable Configurations
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Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-899.NASL description This update for pspp fixes the following issues : CVE-2017-10792: Crafted input could have allowed a denial of service attack via a NULL pointer dereference in ll_insert (boo#1046997) CVE-2017-10791: Crafted input could have allowed a denial of service attack via an integer overflow in the hash_int library (boo#1046998) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-08-10 plugin id 102335 published 2017-08-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102335 title openSUSE Security Update : pspp (openSUSE-2017-899) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-899. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(102335); script_version("3.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-10791", "CVE-2017-10792"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : pspp (openSUSE-2017-899)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2017-899 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for pspp fixes the following issues : CVE-2017-10792: Crafted input could have allowed a denial of service attack via a NULL pointer dereference in ll_insert (boo#1046997) CVE-2017-10791: Crafted input could have allowed a denial of service attack via an integer overflow in the hash_int library (boo#1046998)" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046997" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046998" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected pspp packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:novell:opensuse:pspp"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pspp-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pspp-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pspp-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/08/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/08/10"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); 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/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.2|SUSE42\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.2 / 42.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pspp-0.10.2-2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pspp-debuginfo-0.10.2-2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pspp-debugsource-0.10.2-2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"pspp-devel-0.10.2-2.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"pspp-0.10.2-5.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"pspp-debuginfo-0.10.2-5.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"pspp-debugsource-0.10.2-5.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"pspp-devel-0.10.2-5.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pspp / pspp-debuginfo / pspp-debugsource / pspp-devel"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-996.NASL description This update for pspp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-12958: Illegal address access in function output_hex() could lead to denial of service or unexpected state (boo#1054585) - CVE-2017-12959: Assertion in function dict_add_mrset() could lead to denial of service (boo#1054588) - CVE-2017-12960: Assertion in function dict_rename_var() could lead to denial of service (boo#1054587) - CVE-2017-12961: Assertion in function parse_attributes() could lead to denial of service (boo#1054586) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-09-05 plugin id 102949 published 2017-09-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102949 title openSUSE Security Update : pspp (openSUSE-2017-996) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_6876B163870811E78568E8E0B747A45A.NASL description CVE Details reports : - There is an Integer overflow in the hash_int function of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.10.5-pre2 (CVE-2017-10791). - There is a NULL pointer Dereference in the function ll_insert() of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.10.5-pre2 (CVE-2017-10792). - There is an illegal address access in the function output_hex() in data/data-out.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to remote denial of service (CVE-2017-12958). - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_add_mrset() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack (CVE-2017-12959). - There is a reachable assertion abort in the function dict_rename_var() in data/dictionary.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to remote denial of service (CVE-2017-12960). - There is an assertion abort in the function parse_attributes() in data/sys-file-reader.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP 0.11.0 that will lead to remote denial of service (CVE-2017-12961). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 102690 published 2017-08-23 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/102690 title FreeBSD : pspp -- multiple vulnerabilities (6876b163-8708-11e7-8568-e8e0b747a45a)
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-announce/2017-08/msg00000.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99385
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99385
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467005
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467005