Free of Memory not on the Heap Affecting jbcs-http24-curl package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-JBCSHTTP24CURL-7558709
  • published25 Jul 2024
  • disclosed24 Jul 2024

Introduced: 24 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-6197  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-590  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 jbcs-http24-curl.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbcs-http24-curl package and not the jbcs-http24-curl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

libcurl's ASN1 parser has this utf8asn1str() function used for parsing an ASN.1 UTF-8 string. Itcan detect an invalid field and return error. Unfortunately, when doing so it also invokes free() on a 4 byte localstack buffer. Most modern malloc implementations detect this error and immediately abort. Some however accept the input pointer and add that memory to its list of available chunks. This leads to the overwriting of nearby stack memory. The content of the overwrite is decided by the free() implementation; likely to be memory pointers and a set of flags. The most likely outcome of exploting this flaw is a crash, although it cannot be ruled out that more serious results can be had in special circumstances.

CVSS Scores

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