Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-14073 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Libsixel Project Libsixel 1.8.1

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
libsixel-project
CWE-772
nessus

Summary

libsixel 1.8.1 has a memory leak in sixel_allocator_new in allocator.c.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Libsixel_Project
1

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 familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_EFE43D2B8F3511E8B9E8DCFE074BD614.NASL
descriptionMITRE reports : bsixel 1.8.1 has a memory leak in sixel_decoder_decode in decoder.c, image_buffer_resize in fromsixel.c, sixel_decode_raw in fromsixel.c and sixel_allocator_new in allocator.c
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id111318
published2018-07-25
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111318
titleFreeBSD : Memory leak in different components (efe43d2b-8f35-11e8-b9e8-dcfe074bd614)
code
#
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
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#
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(111318);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/11 10:17:50");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-14072", "CVE-2018-14073");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : Memory leak in different components (efe43d2b-8f35-11e8-b9e8-dcfe074bd614)");
  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:
"MITRE reports :

bsixel 1.8.1 has a memory leak in sixel_decoder_decode in decoder.c,
image_buffer_resize in fromsixel.c, sixel_decode_raw in fromsixel.c
and sixel_allocator_new in allocator.c"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/efe43d2b-8f35-11e8-b9e8-dcfe074bd614.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?53fd83d9"
  );
  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:libsixel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/07/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/07/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 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:"libsixel<1.8.2,1")) 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");