Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-4048 - Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH network
low complexity
lapack-project
openblas-project
julialang
redhat
fedoraproject
CWE-125
critical
Summary
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the CLARRV, DLARRV, SLARRV, and ZLARRV functions in lapack through version 3.10.0, as also used in OpenBLAS before version 0.3.18. Specially crafted inputs passed to these functions could cause an application using lapack to crash or possibly disclose portions of its memory.
Vulnerable Configurations
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.
References
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/42415
- https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/337b65133df174796794871b3988cd03426e6d41
- https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/2be5ee3cca97a597f2ee2118808a2d5eacea050c
- https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/ddb0ff5353637bb5f5ad060c9620e334c143e3d7
- https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/commit/38f3eeee3108b18158409ca2a100e6fe03754781
- https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/pull/625
- https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/commit/fe497efa0510466fd93578aaf9da1ad8ed4edbe7
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DROZM4M2QRKSD6FBO4BHSV2QMIRJQPHT/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6QFEVOCUG2UXMVMFMTU4ONJVDEHY2LW2/