Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-0140 - Classic Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Intel products

047910
CVSS 5.8 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
low complexity
intel
CWE-120
nessus

Summary

Buffer overflow in firmware for Intel(R) Ethernet 700 Series Controllers before version 7.0 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via an adjacent access.

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

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    descriptionThe remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - KVM: x86: Remove spurious semicolon (Joao Martins) [Orabug: 31413782] - genirq: Use rcu in kstat_irqs_usr (Eric Dumazet) - genirq: Make sparse_irq_lock protect what it should protect (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 30953676] - genirq: Free irq_desc with rcu (Thomas Gleixner) [Orabug: 30953676] - qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00.42.0-k1-v2 (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 30372266] - qla2xxx: Fix device discovery when FCP2 device is lost. (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 30372266] - brcmfmac: add subtype check for event handling in data path (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 30776354] (CVE-2019-9503) - percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition (Douglas Miller) [Orabug: 30867060] - blk-mq: Allow timeouts to run while queue is freezing (Gabriel Krisman Bertazi) [Orabug: 30867060] - fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30953290] - jbd2: disable CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31234664] - mwifiex: pcie: Fix memory leak in mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf (Navid Emamdoost) [Orabug: 31246302] (CVE-2019-19056) - drm/vmwgfx: limit the number of mip levels in vmw_gb_surface_define_ioctl (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 31262557] (CVE-2017-7346) - i40e: Increment the driver version for FW API update (Jack Vogel) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: Update FW API version to 1.9 (Piotr Azarewicz) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: Changed maximum supported FW API version to 1.8 (Adam Ludkiewicz) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: Stop dropping 802.1ad tags - eth proto 0x88a8 (Scott Peterson) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: fix reading LLDP configuration (Mariusz Stachura) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: Add capability flag for stopping FW LLDP (Krzysztof Galazka) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: refactor FW version checking (Mitch Williams) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: shutdown all IRQs and disable MSI-X when suspended (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] (CVE-2019-0140) (CVE-2019-0139) (CVE-2019-0144) - i40e: prevent service task from running while we
    last seen2020-06-10
    modified2020-06-04
    plugin id137128
    published2020-06-04
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137128
    titleOracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2020-0019)
  • NASL familyOracle Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idORACLELINUX_ELSA-2020-5670.NASL
    descriptionDescription of changes: [4.1.12-124.39.1.el7uek] - qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00.42.0-k1-v2 (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 30372266] - qla2xxx: Fix device discovery when FCP2 device is lost. (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 30372266] - brcmfmac: add subtype check for event handling in data path (John Donnelly) [Orabug: 30776354] {CVE-2019-9503} - percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition (Douglas Miller) [Orabug: 30867060] - blk-mq: Allow timeouts to run while queue is freezing (Gabriel Krisman Bertazi) [Orabug: 30867060] - fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 30953290] - jbd2: disable CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG (Junxiao Bi) [Orabug: 31234664] - mwifiex: pcie: Fix memory leak in mwifiex_pcie_alloc_cmdrsp_buf (Navid Emamdoost) [Orabug: 31246302] {CVE-2019-19056} - drm/vmwgfx: limit the number of mip levels in vmw_gb_surface_define_ioctl() (Vladis Dronov) [Orabug: 31262557] {CVE-2017-7346} [4.1.12-124.38.5.el7uek] - i40e: Increment the driver version for FW API update (Jack Vogel) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: Update FW API version to 1.9 (Piotr Azarewicz) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: Changed maximum supported FW API version to 1.8 (Adam Ludkiewicz) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: Stop dropping 802.1ad tags - eth proto 0x88a8 (Scott Peterson) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: fix reading LLDP configuration (Mariusz Stachura) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: Add capability flag for stopping FW LLDP (Krzysztof Galazka) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: refactor FW version checking (Mitch Williams) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: shutdown all IRQs and disable MSI-X when suspended (Jacob Keller) [Orabug: 31051191] {CVE-2019-0140} {CVE-2019-0139} {CVE-2019-0144} - i40e: prevent service task from running while we
    last seen2020-05-12
    modified2020-05-07
    plugin id136388
    published2020-05-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136388
    titleOracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2020-5670)