Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-8364 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Rzip Project Rzip 2.1
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The read_buf function in stream.c in rzip 2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted archive.
Vulnerable Configurations
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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 Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-955.NASL description Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a heap buffer overflow write in the rzip program when uncompressing maliciously crafted files. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2017-05-30 plugin id 100475 published 2017-05-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100475 title Debian DLA-955-1 : rzip 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-955-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(100475); script_version("3.6"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-8364"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-955-1 : rzip security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a heap buffer overflow write in the rzip program when uncompressing maliciously crafted files. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.1-1+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your rzip packages. 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/2017/05/msg00026.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/rzip" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected rzip package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:rzip"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/05/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/30"); 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:"rzip", reference:"2.1-1+deb7u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-2189.NASL description Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo discovered a heap buffer overflow write in the rzip program (a compression program for large files) when uncompressing maliciously crafted files. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-05-03 modified 2020-04-27 plugin id 135981 published 2020-04-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135981 title Debian DLA-2189-1 : rzip security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-571.NASL description This update for rzip fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-8364: heap-based buffer overflow in read_buf function via crafted archive file could lead to crash (boo#1036941) last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-05-15 plugin id 100170 published 2017-05-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/100170 title openSUSE Security Update : rzip (openSUSE-2017-571)
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/rzip-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_buf-stream-c/
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/rzip-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-read_buf-stream-c/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00022.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00022.html