Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-9988 - Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
ARM mbed TLS before 2.1.11, before 2.7.2, and before 2.8.0 has a buffer over-read in ssl_parse_server_key_exchange() that could cause a crash on invalid input.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Overread Buffers An adversary attacks a target by providing input that causes an application to read beyond the boundary of a defined buffer. This typically occurs when a value influencing where to start or stop reading is set to reflect positions outside of the valid memory location of the buffer. This type of attack may result in exposure of sensitive information, a system crash, or arbitrary code execution.
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-382.NASL description This update for mbedtls fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-9988: Fixed buffer over-read in ssl_parse_server_key_exchange() that could cause a crash on invalid input (boo#1089022). - CVE-2018-9989: Fixed buffer over-read in ssl_parse_server_psk_hint() that could cause a crash on invalid input (boo#1089021). last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-04-23 plugin id 109237 published 2018-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109237 title openSUSE Security Update : mbedtls (openSUSE-2018-382) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2018-382. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(109237); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2018-9988", "CVE-2018-9989"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : mbedtls (openSUSE-2018-382)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2018-382 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for mbedtls fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-9988: Fixed buffer over-read in ssl_parse_server_key_exchange() that could cause a crash on invalid input (boo#1089022). - CVE-2018-9989: Fixed buffer over-read in ssl_parse_server_psk_hint() that could cause a crash on invalid input (boo#1089021)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089021" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089022" ); 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NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1518.NASL description Two vulnerabilities were discovered in polarssl, a lightweight crypto and SSL/TLS library (nowadays continued under the name mbedtls) which could result in plain text recovery via side-channel attacks. Two other minor vulnerabilities were discovered in polarssl which could result in arithmetic overflow errors. CVE-2018-0497 As a protection against the Lucky Thirteen attack, the TLS code for CBC decryption in encrypt-then-MAC mode performs extra MAC calculations to compensate for variations in message size due to padding. The amount of extra MAC calculation to perform was based on the assumption that the bulk of the time is spent in processing 64-byte blocks, which is correct for most supported hashes but not for SHA-384. Correct the amount of extra work for SHA-384 (and SHA-512 which is currently not used in TLS, and MD2 although no one should care about that). This is a regression fix for what CVE-2013-0169 had been fixed this. CVE-2018-0498 The basis for the Lucky 13 family of attacks is for an attacker to be able to distinguish between (long) valid TLS-CBC padding and invalid TLS-CBC padding. Since our code sets padlen = 0 for invalid padding, the length of the input to the HMAC function gives information about that. Information about this length (modulo the MD/SHA block size) can be deduced from how much MD/SHA padding (this is distinct from TLS-CBC padding) is used. If MD/SHA padding is read from a (static) buffer, a local attacker could get information about how much is used via a cache attack targeting that buffer. 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CVE-2018-0497 As a protection against the Lucky Thirteen attack, the TLS code for CBC decryption in encrypt-then-MAC mode performs extra MAC calculations to compensate for variations in message size due to padding. The amount of extra MAC calculation to perform was based on the assumption that the bulk of the time is spent in processing 64-byte blocks, which is correct for most supported hashes but not for SHA-384. Correct the amount of extra work for SHA-384 (and SHA-512 which is currently not used in TLS, and MD2 although no one should care about that). This is a regression fix for what CVE-2013-0169 had been fixed this. CVE-2018-0498 The basis for the Lucky 13 family of attacks is for an attacker to be able to distinguish between (long) valid TLS-CBC padding and invalid TLS-CBC padding. Since our code sets padlen = 0 for invalid padding, the length of the input to the HMAC function gives information about that. Information about this length (modulo the MD/SHA block size) can be deduced from how much MD/SHA padding (this is distinct from TLS-CBC padding) is used. If MD/SHA padding is read from a (static) buffer, a local attacker could get information about how much is used via a cache attack targeting that buffer. Let's get rid of this buffer. Now the only buffer used is the internal MD/SHA one, which is always read fully by the process() function. CVE-2018-9988 Prevent arithmetic overflow on bounds check and add bound check before signature length read in ssl_parse_server_key_exchange(). CVE-2018-9989 Prevent arithmetic overflow on bounds check and add bound check before length read in ssl_parse_server_psk_hint() For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.9-2.1+deb8u4. We recommend that you upgrade your polarssl packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. 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References
- https://tls.mbed.org/tech-updates/releases/mbedtls-2.8.0-2.7.2-and-2.1.11-released
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/commit/a1098f81c252b317ad34ea978aea2bc47760b215
- https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/commit/027f84c69f4ef30c0693832a6c396ef19e563ca1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00029.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00021.html