Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-8825 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Libetpan Project Libetpan
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A null dereference vulnerability has been found in the MIME handling component of LibEtPan before 1.8, as used in MailCore and MailCore 2. A crash can occur in low-level/imf/mailimf.c during a failed parse of a Cc header containing multiple e-mail addresses.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 11 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_5760003234FE11E78965BCAEC524BF84.NASL description rwhitworth reports : I was using American Fuzzy Lop (afl-fuzz) to fuzz input to the mime-parse test program. Is fixing these crashes something you last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 100081 published 2017-05-10 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/100081 title FreeBSD : libetpan -- null dereference vulnerability in MIME parsing component (57600032-34fe-11e7-8965-bcaec524bf84) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(100081); script_version("3.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:46"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-8825"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : libetpan -- null dereference vulnerability in MIME parsing component (57600032-34fe-11e7-8965-bcaec524bf84)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "rwhitworth reports : I was using American Fuzzy Lop (afl-fuzz) to fuzz input to the mime-parse test program. Is fixing these crashes something you're interested in? The input files can be found here : https://github.com/rwhitworth/libetpan-fuzz/. The files can be executed as ./mime-parse id_filename to cause seg faults." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://cve.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2017-8825" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/57600032-34fe-11e7-8965-bcaec524bf84.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?965cc2f0" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected 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:freebsd:freebsd:libetpan"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/04/29"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/05/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/05/10"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"libetpan<1.8")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-41.NASL description This update for libetpan fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-8825: Segmentation faults in mime handling were fixed. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-01-16 plugin id 106068 published 2018-01-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106068 title openSUSE Security Update : libetpan (openSUSE-2018-41) 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-2018-41. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(106068); script_version("3.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-8825"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : libetpan (openSUSE-2018-41)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2018-41 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 libetpan fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-8825: Segmentation faults in mime handling were fixed." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038061" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected libetpan packages." ); 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:novell:opensuse:libetpan-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libetpan-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libetpan17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libetpan17-debuginfo"); 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:"2018/01/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/01/16"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 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)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.2 / 42.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libetpan-debugsource-1.6-5.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libetpan-devel-1.6-5.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libetpan17-1.6-5.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"libetpan17-debuginfo-1.6-5.3.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"libetpan-debugsource-1.6-8.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"libetpan-devel-1.6-8.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"libetpan17-1.6-8.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.3", reference:"libetpan17-debuginfo-1.6-8.1") ) 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, "libetpan-debugsource / libetpan-devel / libetpan17 / etc"); }
References
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/commit/1fe8fbc032ccda1db9af66d93016b49c16c1f22d
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/issues/274
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/releases/tag/1.8
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/libetpan/releases/tag/1.8