Structured reply is a feature of the newstyle NBD protocol allowing the server to send a reply in chunks. A bounds check which was supposed to test for chunk offsets smaller than the beginning of the request did not work because of signed/unsigned confusion. If one of these chunks contains a negative offset then data under control of the server is written to memory before the read buffer supplied by the client. If the read buffer is located on the stack then this allows the stack return address from nbd_pread() to be trivially modified, allowing arbitrary code execution under the control of the server. If the buffer is located on the heap then other memory objects before the buffer can be overwritten, which again would usually lead to arbitrary code execution.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14842 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-October/msg00060.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14842 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-October/msg00060.html | Patch Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
21 Nov 2024, 04:27
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14842 - Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory | |
References | () https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-October/msg00060.html - Patch, Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2019-11-26 16:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 04:27
NVD link : CVE-2019-14842
Mitre link : CVE-2019-14842
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2019-14842
JSON object : View
Products Affected
redhat
- libnbd
CWE
CWE-681
Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types