Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-0493 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
HIGH Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
remctld in remctl before 3.14, when an attacker is authorized to execute a command that uses the sudo option, has a use-after-free that leads to a daemon crash, memory corruption, or arbitrary command execution.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-4159.NASL description Santosh Ananthakrishnan discovered a use-after-free in remctl, a server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution. If the command is configured with the sudo option, this could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. The oldstable distribution (jessie) is not affected. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 108771 published 2018-04-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108771 title Debian DSA-4159-1 : remctl - security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4159. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(108771); script_version("1.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/13 12:30:46"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-0493"); script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4159"); script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4159-1 : remctl - 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-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Santosh Ananthakrishnan discovered a use-after-free in remctl, a server for Kerberos-authenticated command execution. If the command is configured with the sudo option, this could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. The oldstable distribution (jessie) is not affected." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/remctl" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/remctl" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4159" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade the remctl packages. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.13-1+deb9u1." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:remctl"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/01"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/02"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018 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:"9.0", prefix:"libnet-remctl-perl", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libremctl-dev", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libremctl1", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"php-remctl", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"python-remctl", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"remctl-client", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"remctl-server", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ruby-remctl", reference:"3.13-1+deb9u1")) 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 Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-99EED1942F.NASL description Update to 3.14 (CVE-2018-0493) 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 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120646 published 2019-01-03 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/120646 title Fedora 28 : remctl (2018-99eed1942f)
References
- https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/remctl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86c7e44090c988112a37589d2c7a94029eb5e641
- https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/remctl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86c7e44090c988112a37589d2c7a94029eb5e641
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4159
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4159
- https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/security/2018-04-01.html
- https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/security/2018-04-01.html