Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-1951 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
apache
oracle
debian
canonical
CWE-835
nessus

Summary

A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-2161.NASL
descriptionTwo security issues have been detected in tika and fixed. CVE-2020-1950: carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache. CVE-2020-1951: Infinite Loop (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika
last seen2020-04-03
modified2020-03-30
plugin id134982
published2020-03-30
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134982
titleDebian DLA-2161-1 : tika security update
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2161-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(134982);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/04/02");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-1950", "CVE-2020-1951");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2161-1 : tika security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Two security issues have been detected in tika and fixed.

CVE-2020-1950: carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause
excessive memory usage in Apache.

CVE-2020-1951: Infinite Loop (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's
PSDParser.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version
1.5-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tika 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/2020/03/msg00035.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/tika"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the affected libtika-java package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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:libtika-java");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/03/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/30");
  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:"libtika-java", reference:"1.5-1+deb8u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");