Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kernel-tools-devel package, versions <0:4.14.72-73.55.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.73% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-KERNELTOOLSDEVEL-1665843
  • published 27 Sep 2021
  • disclosed 25 Sep 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 kernel-tools-devel to version 0:4.14.72-73.55.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2018-1086.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-devel package and not the kernel-tools-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

A security flaw was found in the chap_server_compute_md5() function in the ISCSI target code in the Linux kernel in a way an authentication request from an ISCSI initiator is processed. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a stack buffer overflow and smash up to 17 bytes of the stack. The attack requires the iSCSI target to be enabled on the victim host. Depending on how the target's code was built (i.e. depending on a compiler, compile flags and hardware architecture) an attack may lead to a system crash and thus to a denial-of-service or possibly to a non-authorized access to data exported by an iSCSI target. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out, although we believe it is highly unlikely. Kernel versions 4.18.x, 4.14.x and 3.10.x are believed to be vulnerable.

CVSS Scores

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NVD

7 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    High