Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-7455 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Freebsd 11.3/11.4/12.1
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r360973, 12.1-RELEASE before p5, 11.4-STABLE before r360973, 11.4-BETA1 before p1 and 11.3-RELEASE before p9, the FTP packet handler in libalias incorrectly calculates some packet length allowing disclosure of small amounts of kernel (for kernel NAT) or natd process space (for userspace natd).
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 16 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
NASL family | FreeBSD Local Security Checks |
NASL id | FREEBSD_PKG_78992249947C11EA92AB00163E433440.NASL |
description | The FTP packet handler in libalias incorrectly calculates some packet lengths. This may result in disclosing small amounts of memory from the kernel (for the in-kernel NAT implementation) or from the process space for natd (for the userspace implementation). Impact : A malicious attacker could send specially constructed packets that exploit the erroneous calculation allowing the attacker to disclose small amount of memory either from the kernel (for the in-kernel NAT implementation) or from the process space for natd (for the userspace implementation). |
last seen | 2020-05-21 |
modified | 2020-05-13 |
plugin id | 136536 |
published | 2020-05-13 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136536 |
title | FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Memory disclosure vulnerability in libalias (78992249-947c-11ea-92ab-00163e433440) |
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References
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:13.libalias.asc
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:13.libalias.asc
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0005/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0005/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-661/
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-661/