Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-12141 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Ytnef Project Ytnef 1.9.2
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In ytnef 1.9.2, a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the function TNEFFillMapi in ytnef.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
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.
- 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 family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-7D7083B8BE.NASL description ytnef 1.9.3 release, fixing a number of security issues : - CVE-2017-9470 - CVE-2017-9471 - CVE-2017-9474 - CVE-2017-9058 - CVE-2017-12142 - CVE-2017-12141 - CVE-2017-12144 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 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 125273 published 2019-05-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/125273 title Fedora 30 : 1:ytnef (2019-7d7083b8be) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2019-7d7083b8be. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(125273); script_version("1.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/15"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12141", "CVE-2017-12142", "CVE-2017-12144", "CVE-2017-6298", "CVE-2017-6299", "CVE-2017-6300", "CVE-2017-6301", "CVE-2017-6302", "CVE-2017-6303", "CVE-2017-6304", "CVE-2017-6305", "CVE-2017-6306", "CVE-2017-6800", "CVE-2017-6801", "CVE-2017-6802", "CVE-2017-9058", "CVE-2017-9146", "CVE-2017-9470", "CVE-2017-9471", "CVE-2017-9472", "CVE-2017-9473", "CVE-2017-9474"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2019-7d7083b8be"); script_name(english:"Fedora 30 : 1:ytnef (2019-7d7083b8be)"); 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: "ytnef 1.9.3 release, fixing a number of security issues : - CVE-2017-9470 - CVE-2017-9471 - CVE-2017-9474 - CVE-2017-9058 - CVE-2017-12142 - CVE-2017-12141 - CVE-2017-12144 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-2019-7d7083b8be" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected 1:ytnef package." ); 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:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:ytnef"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/02/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/05/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 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:"^30([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 30", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC30", reference:"ytnef-1.9.3-1.fc30", epoch:"1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, 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, "1:ytnef"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3667-1.NASL description It was discovered that libytnef incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-12141, CVE-2017-9146, CVE-2017-9471, CVE-2017-9473) It was discovered that libytnef incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information. (CVE-2017-9058). 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 110286 published 2018-06-01 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/110286 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libytnef vulnerabilities (USN-3667-1)