Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-18408 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
broadcom
fedoraproject
CWE-416
critical
nessus

Summary

A use-after-free was discovered in the tcpbridge binary of Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1. The issue gets triggered in the function post_args() at tcpbridge.c, causing a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Broadcom
1
OS
Fedoraproject
2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-166B220FF1.NASL
    descriptionThis release (4.3.1) contains bug fixes only : - Fix checkspell detected typos (#531) - Heap overflow packet2tree and get_l2len (#530) This is Tcpreplay suite 4.3.0 This release contains several bug fixes and enhancements : - Fix maxOS TOS checksum failure (#524) - TCP sequence edits seeding (#514) - Fix issues identifed by Codacy (#493) - CVE-2018-18408 use-after-free in post_args (#489) - CVE-2018-18407 heap-buffer-overflow csum_replace4 (#488) - CVE-2018-17974 heap-buffer-overflow dlt_en10mb_encode (#486) - CVE-2018-17580 heap-buffer-overflow fast_edit_packet (#485) - CVE-2018-17582 heap-buffer-overflow in get_next_packet (#484) - Out-of-tree build (#482) - CVE-2018-13112 heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2len (#477 dup #408) - Closing stdin on pipe (#479) - Second pcap file hangs on multiplier option (#472) - Jumbo frame support for fragroute option (#466) - TCP sequence edit ACK corruption (#451) - TCP sequence number edit initial SYN packet should have zero ACK (#450) - Travis CI build fails due to new build images (#432) - Upgrade libopts to 5.18.12 to address version build issues (#430) - Add ability to change tcp SEQ/ACK numbers (#425) - Hang using loop and netmap options (#424) - tcpprep -S not working for large cache files (#423) - Unable to tcprewrite range of ports with --portmap (#422) - --maxsleep broken for values less than 1000 (#421) - -T flag breaks traffic replay timing (#419) - Respect 2nd packet timing (#418) - Avoid non-blocking behaviour when using STDIN (#416) - pcap containing >1020 packets produces invalid cache file (#415) - manpage typos (#413) - Fails to open tap0 on Zephyr (#411) - Heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2protocol (#410) - Heap-buffer-overflow in packet2tree (#409) - Heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2len (#408) - Heap-buffer-overflow in flow_decode (#407) - Rewrite zero IP total length field to match the actual packet length (#406) - Stack-buffer-overflow in tcpcapinfo (#405) - tcpprep --include option does not exclude (#404) - Negative-size-param memset in dlt_radiotap_get_80211 (#402) - tcpeplay --verbose option not working (#398) - Fix replay when using --with-testnic (#178) 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-07
    plugin id120954
    published2019-01-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120954
    titleFedora 28 : tcpreplay (2018-166b220ff1)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2018-166b220ff1.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(120954);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2018-13112", "CVE-2018-17580", "CVE-2018-17582", "CVE-2018-17974", "CVE-2018-18407", "CVE-2018-18408");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-166b220ff1");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 28 : tcpreplay (2018-166b220ff1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "This release (4.3.1) contains bug fixes only :
    
      - Fix checkspell detected typos (#531)
    
      - Heap overflow packet2tree and get_l2len (#530)
    
    This is Tcpreplay suite 4.3.0
    
    This release contains several bug fixes and enhancements :
    
      - Fix maxOS TOS checksum failure (#524)
    
      - TCP sequence edits seeding (#514)
    
      - Fix issues identifed by Codacy (#493)
    
      - CVE-2018-18408 use-after-free in post_args (#489)
    
      - CVE-2018-18407 heap-buffer-overflow csum_replace4 (#488)
    
      - CVE-2018-17974 heap-buffer-overflow dlt_en10mb_encode
        (#486)
    
      - CVE-2018-17580 heap-buffer-overflow fast_edit_packet
        (#485)
    
      - CVE-2018-17582 heap-buffer-overflow in get_next_packet
        (#484)
    
      - Out-of-tree build (#482)
    
      - CVE-2018-13112 heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2len (#477
        dup #408)
    
      - Closing stdin on pipe (#479)
    
      - Second pcap file hangs on multiplier option (#472)
    
      - Jumbo frame support for fragroute option (#466)
    
      - TCP sequence edit ACK corruption (#451)
    
      - TCP sequence number edit initial SYN packet should have
        zero ACK (#450)
    
      - Travis CI build fails due to new build images (#432)
    
      - Upgrade libopts to 5.18.12 to address version build
        issues (#430)
    
      - Add ability to change tcp SEQ/ACK numbers (#425)
    
      - Hang using loop and netmap options (#424)
    
      - tcpprep -S not working for large cache files (#423)
    
      - Unable to tcprewrite range of ports with --portmap
        (#422)
    
      - --maxsleep broken for values less than 1000 (#421)
    
      - -T flag breaks traffic replay timing (#419)
    
      - Respect 2nd packet timing (#418)
    
      - Avoid non-blocking behaviour when using STDIN (#416)
    
      - pcap containing >1020 packets produces invalid cache
        file (#415)
    
      - manpage typos (#413)
    
      - Fails to open tap0 on Zephyr (#411)
    
      - Heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2protocol (#410)
    
      - Heap-buffer-overflow in packet2tree (#409)
    
      - Heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2len (#408)
    
      - Heap-buffer-overflow in flow_decode (#407)
    
      - Rewrite zero IP total length field to match the actual
        packet length (#406)
    
      - Stack-buffer-overflow in tcpcapinfo (#405)
    
      - tcpprep --include option does not exclude (#404)
    
      - Negative-size-param memset in dlt_radiotap_get_80211
        (#402)
    
      - tcpeplay --verbose option not working (#398)
    
      - Fix replay when using --with-testnic (#178)
    
    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."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-166b220ff1"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected tcpreplay package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpreplay");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/03");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/01/06");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/01/07");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      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/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^28([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 28", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/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$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC28", reference:"tcpreplay-4.3.1-1.fc28")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
        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, "tcpreplay");
    }
    
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-A9C08D4B40.NASL
    descriptionPatch CVE-2019-8376, CVE-2019-8377 and CVE-2019-8381. 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id123045
    published2019-03-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123045
    titleFedora 28 : tcpreplay (2019-a9c08d4b40)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2019-a9c08d4b40.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(123045);
      script_version("1.3");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/02/03");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2018-18407", "CVE-2018-18408", "CVE-2019-8376", "CVE-2019-8377", "CVE-2019-8381");
      script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2019-a9c08d4b40");
    
      script_name(english:"Fedora 28 : tcpreplay (2019-a9c08d4b40)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "Patch CVE-2019-8376, CVE-2019-8377 and CVE-2019-8381.
    
    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."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-a9c08d4b40"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected tcpreplay package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpreplay");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/10/17");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/03/23");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/03/25");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
    
      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/RedHat/release");
    if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
    os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
    if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
    os_ver = os_ver[1];
    if (! preg(pattern:"^28([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 28", "Fedora " + os_ver);
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/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$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"FC28", reference:"tcpreplay-4.3.2-1.fc28")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
        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, "tcpreplay");
    }
    
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2018-5F91054677.NASL
    descriptionThis release (4.3.1) contains bug fixes only : - Fix checkspell detected typos (#531) - Heap overflow packet2tree and get_l2len (#530) This is Tcpreplay suite 4.3.0 This release contains several bug fixes and enhancements : - Fix maxOS TOS checksum failure (#524) - TCP sequence edits seeding (#514) - Fix issues identifed by Codacy (#493) - CVE-2018-18408 use-after-free in post_args (#489) - CVE-2018-18407 heap-buffer-overflow csum_replace4 (#488) - CVE-2018-17974 heap-buffer-overflow dlt_en10mb_encode (#486) - CVE-2018-17580 heap-buffer-overflow fast_edit_packet (#485) - CVE-2018-17582 heap-buffer-overflow in get_next_packet (#484) - Out-of-tree build (#482) - CVE-2018-13112 heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2len (#477 dup #408) - Closing stdin on pipe (#479) - Second pcap file hangs on multiplier option (#472) - Jumbo frame support for fragroute option (#466) - TCP sequence edit ACK corruption (#451) - TCP sequence number edit initial SYN packet should have zero ACK (#450) - Travis CI build fails due to new build images (#432) - Upgrade libopts to 5.18.12 to address version build issues (#430) - Add ability to change tcp SEQ/ACK numbers (#425) - Hang using loop and netmap options (#424) - tcpprep -S not working for large cache files (#423) - Unable to tcprewrite range of ports with --portmap (#422) - --maxsleep broken for values less than 1000 (#421) - -T flag breaks traffic replay timing (#419) - Respect 2nd packet timing (#418) - Avoid non-blocking behaviour when using STDIN (#416) - pcap containing >1020 packets produces invalid cache file (#415) - manpage typos (#413) - Fails to open tap0 on Zephyr (#411) - Heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2protocol (#410) - Heap-buffer-overflow in packet2tree (#409) - Heap-buffer-overflow in get_l2len (#408) - Heap-buffer-overflow in flow_decode (#407) - Rewrite zero IP total length field to match the actual packet length (#406) - Stack-buffer-overflow in tcpcapinfo (#405) - tcpprep --include option does not exclude (#404) - Negative-size-param memset in dlt_radiotap_get_80211 (#402) - tcpeplay --verbose option not working (#398) - Fix replay when using --with-testnic (#178) 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2019-01-07
    plugin id120955
    published2019-01-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120955
    titleFedora 29 : tcpreplay (2018-5f91054677)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-7D689DD314.NASL
    descriptionPatch CVE-2019-8376, CVE-2019-8377 and CVE-2019-8381. 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id124510
    published2019-05-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124510
    titleFedora 30 : tcpreplay (2019-7d689dd314)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-E40253F67E.NASL
    descriptionPatch CVE-2019-8376, CVE-2019-8377 and CVE-2019-8381. 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id123050
    published2019-03-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123050
    titleFedora 29 : tcpreplay (2019-e40253f67e)