Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-13451 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Xymon through 4.3.28, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in history.c.
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 FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_10E1D580D17411E9A87FA4BADB2F4699.NASL description Japheth Cleaver reports : Several buffer overflows were reported by University of Cambridge Computer Security Incident Response Team. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128584 published 2019-09-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128584 title FreeBSD : xymon-server -- multiple vulnerabilities (10e1d580-d174-11e9-a87f-a4badb2f4699) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2019 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. 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NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1898.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in xymon, the network monitoring application. Remote attackers might leverage these vulnerabilities in the CGI parsing code (including buffer overflows and XSS) to cause denial of service, or any other unspecified impact. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128179 published 2019-08-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128179 title Debian DLA-1898-1 : xymon security update