Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-7453 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Freebsd 11.3/12.1

047910
CVSS 3.3 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
local
freebsd
CWE-754
nessus

Summary

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r359021, 12.1-RELEASE before 12.1-RELEASE-p3, 11.3-STABLE before r359020, and 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p7, a missing null termination check in the jail_set configuration option "osrelease" may return more bytes with a subsequent jail_get system call allowing a malicious jail superuser with permission to create nested jails to read kernel memory.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
10

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_6B90ACBA6A0A11EA92AB00163E433440.NASL
descriptionA missing NUL-termination check for the jail_set(2) configration option
last seen2020-05-09
modified2020-03-20
plugin id134722
published2020-03-20
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134722
titleFreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Kernel memory disclosure with nested jails (6b90acba-6a0a-11ea-92ab-00163e433440)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(134722);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/08");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-7453");
  script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-20:08.jail");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2020-A-0188");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Kernel memory disclosure with nested jails (6b90acba-6a0a-11ea-92ab-00163e433440)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A missing NUL-termination check for the jail_set(2) configration
option 'osrelease' may return more bytes when reading the jail
configuration back with jail_get(2) than were originally set. Impact :
For jails with a non-default setting of children.max > 0 ('nested
jails') a superuser inside a jail can create a jail and may be able to
read and take advantage of exposed kernel memory."
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/6b90acba-6a0a-11ea-92ab-00163e433440.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7467343d"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  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:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-7453");
  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:freebsd:freebsd:FreeBSD");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/03/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  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:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info", "Settings/ParanoidReport");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


if (report_paranoia < 2) audit(AUDIT_PARANOID);

flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=12.1<12.1_3")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"FreeBSD>=11.3<11.3_7")) flag++;

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