Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-5766 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Libav
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Libav through 12.2, there is an invalid memcpy in the av_packet_ref function of libavcodec/avpacket.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted avi file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
| NASL family | Debian Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | DEBIAN_DLA-1907.NASL |
| description | Several security issues have been corrected in multiple demuxers and decoders of the libav multimedia library. CVE-2017-9987 In Libav, there was a heap-based buffer overflow in the function hpel_motion in mpegvideo_motion.c. A crafted input could have lead to a remote denial of service attack. CVE-2018-5766 In Libav there was an invalid memcpy in the av_packet_ref function of libavcodec/avpacket.c. Remote attackers could have leveraged this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted avi file. CVE-2018-11102 A read access violation in the mov_probe function in libavformat/mov.c allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by avconv. CVE-2019-14372 In Libav, there was an infinite loop in the function wv_read_block_header() in the file wvdec.c. CVE-2019-14442 In mpc8_read_header in libavformat/mpc8.c, an input file could have resulted in an avio_seek infinite loop and hang, with 100% CPU consumption. Attackers could have leveraged this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. For Debian 8 |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 128427 |
| published | 2019-09-03 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128427 |
| title | Debian DLA-1907-1 : libav security update |
| code | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102793
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102793
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00000.html