Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-6918 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Freebsd

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
freebsd
CWE-835
nessus

Summary

In FreeBSD before 11.1-STABLE, 11.1-RELEASE-p9, 10.4-STABLE, 10.4-RELEASE-p8 and 10.3-RELEASE-p28, the length field of the ipsec option header does not count the size of the option header itself, causing an infinite loop when the length is zero. This issue can allow a remote attacker who is able to send an arbitrary packet to cause the machine to crash.

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_C0C5AFEF38DB11E88B7FA4BADB2F469B.NASL
descriptionThe length field of the option header does not count the size of the option header itself. This causes a problem when the length is zero, the count is then incremented by zero, which causes an infinite loop. In addition there are pointer/offset mistakes in the handling of IPv4 options. Impact : A remote attacker who is able to send an arbitrary packet, could cause the remote target machine to crash.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id108859
published2018-04-06
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108859
titleFreeBSD : FreeBSD -- ipsec crash or denial of service (c0c5afef-38db-11e8-8b7f-a4badb2f469b)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(108859);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/12/07  9:46:53");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-6918");
  script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-18:05.ipsec");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- ipsec crash or denial of service (c0c5afef-38db-11e8-8b7f-a4badb2f469b)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The length field of the option header does not count the size of the
option header itself. This causes a problem when the length is zero,
the count is then incremented by zero, which causes an infinite loop.

In addition there are pointer/offset mistakes in the handling of IPv4
options. Impact : A remote attacker who is able to send an arbitrary
packet, could cause the remote target machine to crash."
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/c0c5afef-38db-11e8-8b7f-a4badb2f469b.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e1f67d14"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A: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_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/04/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/04/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/04/06");
  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:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  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);


if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=11.1<11.1_9")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=10.4<10.4_8")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=10.3<10.3_29")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");