FreeBSD : curl -- multiple vulnerabilities (9fb4e57b-d65a-11e9-8a5f-e5c82b486287)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128795

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

curl security problems :

CVE-2019-5481: FTP-KRB double-free

libcurl can be told to use kerberos over FTP to a server, as set with the CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL option.

During such kerberos FTP data transfer, the server sends data to curl in blocks with the 32 bit size of each block first and then that amount of data immediately following.

A malicious or just broken server can claim to send a very large block and if by doing that it makes curl's subsequent call to realloc() to fail, curl would then misbehave in the exit path and double-free the memory.

In practical terms, an up to 4 GB memory area may very well be fine to allocate on a modern 64 bit system but on 32 bit systems it will fail.

Kerberos FTP is a rarely used protocol with curl. Also, Kerberos authentication is usually only attempted and used with servers that the client has a previous association with.

CVE-2019-5482: TFTP small blocksize heap buffer overflow

libcurl contains a heap buffer overflow in the function (tftp_receive_packet()) that receives data from a TFTP server. It can call recvfrom() with the default size for the buffer rather than with the size that was used to allocate it. Thus, the content that might overwrite the heap memory is controlled by the server.

This flaw is only triggered if the TFTP server sends an OACK without the BLKSIZE option, when a BLKSIZE smaller than 512 bytes was requested by the TFTP client. OACK is a TFTP extension and is not used by all TFTP servers.

Users choosing a smaller block size than default should be rare as the primary use case for changing the size is to make it larger.

It is rare for users to use TFTP across the Internet. It is most commonly used within local networks. TFTP as a protocol is always inherently insecure.

This issue was introduced by the add of the TFTP BLKSIZE option handling. It was previously incompletely fixed by an almost identical issue called CVE-2019-5436.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128795

File Name: freebsd_pkg_9fb4e57bd65a11e98a5fe5c82b486287.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 9/16/2019

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5482

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:curl, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5481, CVE-2019-5482

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