Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-13420 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Gperftools Project Gperftools 2.7

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
gperftools-project
CWE-772
nessus
NVD
Published: 2018-07-07
Updated: 2024-08-05

Summary

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gperftools_Project
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • HTTP DoS
    An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.

Nessus

  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2020-1154.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the version of the gperftools package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program.(CVE-2018-13420) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-03
    modified2020-02-25
    plugin id133988
    published2020-02-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133988
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP8 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1154)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(133988);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/01");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2018-13420"
  );

  script_name(english:"EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1154)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to the version of the gperftools package installed, the
EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following
vulnerability :

  - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak
    in malloc_extension.cc, related to
    MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the
    software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it
    is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer
    program.(CVE-2018-13420)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
  # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2020-1154
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?fc80fa25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected gperftools package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/I:N/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:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/25");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gperftools-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/sp");
  script_exclude_keys("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");

  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/EulerOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS");
if (release !~ "^EulerOS release 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0");

sp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/sp");
if (isnull(sp) || sp !~ "^(8)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP8");

uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");
if (!empty_or_null(uvp)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP8", "EulerOS UVP " + uvp);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu);
if ("aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "aarch64", cpu);

flag = 0;

pkgs = ["gperftools-libs-2.7-3.h3.eulerosv2r8"];

foreach (pkg in pkgs)
  if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", sp:"8", reference:pkg)) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    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, "gperftools");
}
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2020-1544.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the version of the gperftools package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program.(CVE-2018-13420) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-05-08
    modified2020-05-01
    plugin id136247
    published2020-05-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136247
    titleEulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1544)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(136247);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/07");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2018-13420"
  );

  script_name(english:"EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1544)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to the version of the gperftools package installed, the
EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is
affected by the following vulnerability :

  - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak
    in malloc_extension.cc, related to
    MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the
    software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it
    is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer
    program.(CVE-2018-13420)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
  # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2020-1544
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?80879d79");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected gperftools package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/I:N/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:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/04/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/01");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:gperftools-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:3.0.2.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");

  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/EulerOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS");
uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version");
if (uvp != "3.0.2.0") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/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$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu);
if ("aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "aarch64", cpu);

flag = 0;

pkgs = ["gperftools-libs-2.6.1-1.h2"];

foreach (pkg in pkgs)
  if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", reference:pkg)) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    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, "gperftools");
}
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2020-1600.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the version of the gperftools package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program.(CVE-2018-13420) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-06
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id137018
    published2020-06-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137018
    titleEulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1600)
  • NASL familyHuawei Local Security Checks
    NASL idEULEROS_SA-2020-1366.NASL
    descriptionAccording to the version of the gperftools package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - ** DISPUTED ** Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in malloc_extension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program.(CVE-2018-13420) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-04-07
    modified2020-04-02
    plugin id135153
    published2020-04-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135153
    titleEulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.6.0 : gperftools (EulerOS-SA-2020-1366)

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