Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-17455 - Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
nongnu
debian
canonical
fedoraproject
opensuse
CWE-125
critical
nessus

Summary

Libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c for a crafted NTLM request.

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 familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-2207.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c for a crafted NTLM request. For Debian 8
    last seen2020-05-15
    modified2020-05-11
    plugin id136429
    published2020-05-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136429
    titleDebian DLA-2207-1 : libntlm security update
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2207-1. The text
    # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(136429);
      script_version("1.2");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/13");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2019-17455");
    
      script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2207-1 : libntlm security update");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "It was discovered that libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer
    size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and
    tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, as demonstrated by a
    stack-based buffer over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c
    for a crafted NTLM request.
    
    For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version
    1.4-3+deb8u1.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your libntlm packages.
    
    NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
    block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
    to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
    introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00010.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/libntlm"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Upgrade the affected libntlm0, and libntlm0-dev packages."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libntlm0");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libntlm0-dev");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/10/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/10");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/11");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("debian_package.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libntlm0", reference:"1.4-3+deb8u1")) flag++;
    if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libntlm0-dev", reference:"1.4-3+deb8u1")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_0F798BD6832511EA9A7808002728F74C.NASL
    descriptionNVD reports : Libntlm through 1.5 relies on a fixed buffer size for tSmbNtlmAuthRequest, tSmbNtlmAuthChallenge, and tSmbNtlmAuthResponse read and write operations, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer over-read in buildSmbNtlmAuthRequest in smbutil.c for a crafted NTLM request.
    last seen2020-04-30
    modified2020-04-22
    plugin id135881
    published2020-04-22
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135881
    titleFreeBSD : libntlm -- buffer overflow vulnerability (0f798bd6-8325-11ea-9a78-08002728f74c)