Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5668 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Bitlbee and Bitlbee-Libpurple

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
bitlbee
CWE-476
critical
nessus

Summary

bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the contact list. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-10189.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-832.NASL
descriptionCVE-2017-5668 Fix for incomplete fix for
last seen2020-03-17
modified2017-02-24
plugin id97356
published2017-02-24
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97356
titleDebian 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");