NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting atftp package, versions <0.7.git20120829-3.1
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- published20 Apr 2019
- disclosed20 Apr 2019
Introduced: 20 Apr 2019
CVE-2019-11366 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 atftp to version 0.7.git20120829-3.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream atftp package and not the atftp package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue was discovered in atftpd in atftp 0.7.1. It does not lock the thread_list_mutex mutex before assigning the current thread data structure. As a result, the daemon is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a NULL pointer dereference. If thread_data is NULL when assigned to current, and modified by another thread before a certain tftpd_list.c check, there is a crash when dereferencing current->next.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11366
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/16
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4438
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00012.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-14
- https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/advisories/atftpd-multiple-vulnerabilities
- https://sourceforge.net/p/atftp/code/ci/382f76a90b44f81fec00e2f609a94def4a5d3580/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4540-1/