CVE-2008-1673

Description

The asn1 implementation in (a) the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.6 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.5, as used in the cifs and ip_nat_snmp_basic modules; and (b) the gxsnmp package; does not properly validate length values during decoding of ASN.1 BER data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) a length greater than the working buffer, which can lead to an unspecified overflow; (2) an oid length of zero, which can lead to an off-by-one error; or (3) an indefinite length for a primitive encoding.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00587.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42921

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443962

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1770

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020210

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29589

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493300/100/0/threaded

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:174

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:113

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1592

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0189

http://secunia.com/advisories/32759

http://secunia.com/advisories/32370

http://secunia.com/advisories/32104

http://secunia.com/advisories/32103

http://secunia.com/advisories/31836

http://secunia.com/advisories/31107

http://secunia.com/advisories/30982

http://secunia.com/advisories/30658

http://secunia.com/advisories/30644

http://secunia.com/advisories/30580

http://secunia.com/advisories/30000

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.5

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.6

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ddb2c43594f22843e9f3153da151deaba1a834c5

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=33afb8403f361919aa5c8fe1d0a4f5ddbfbbea3c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3