Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-20795 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
HIGH Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
iproute2 before 5.1.0 has a use-after-free in get_netnsid_from_name in ip/ipnetns.c. NOTE: security relevance may be limited to certain uses of setuid that, although not a default, are sometimes a configuration option offered to end users. Even when setuid is used, other factors (such as C library configuration) may block exploitability.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2020-3_0-0091_IPROUTE2.NASL description An update of the iproute2 package has been released. last seen 2020-05-31 modified 2020-05-18 plugin id 136698 published 2020-05-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136698 title Photon OS 3.0: Iproute2 PHSA-2020-3.0-0091 code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-3.0-0091. The text # itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc. include('compat.inc'); if (description) { script_id(136698); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/27"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-20795"); script_name(english:"Photon OS 3.0: Iproute2 PHSA-2020-3.0-0091"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "An update of the iproute2 package has been released."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-3.0-91.md"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected Linux packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/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:L/AC:L/PR:H/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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-20795"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/05/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:iproute2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:3.0"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS"); if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 3\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 3.0"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-3.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"iproute2-4.18.0-3.ph3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-3.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"iproute2-devel-4.18.0-3.ph3")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "iproute2"); }
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-4357-1.NASL description It was discovered that IPRoute incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-19 modified 2020-05-14 plugin id 136606 published 2020-05-14 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136606 title Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : iproute2 vulnerability (USN-4357-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4357-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(136606); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/18"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-20795"); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4357-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : iproute2 vulnerability (USN-4357-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "It was discovered that IPRoute incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://usn.ubuntu.com/4357-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected iproute2 package." ); 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:iproute2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/05/09"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(18\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 18.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"iproute2", pkgver:"4.15.0-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "iproute2"); }
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171452
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171452
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=9bf2c538a0eb10d66e2365a655bf6c52f5ba3d10
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=9bf2c538a0eb10d66e2365a655bf6c52f5ba3d10
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-06
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-06
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4357-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4357-1/