SB2014091107 - Buffer overflow in Novell Opensuse
Published: September 11, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014091107
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3985)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The getHTTPResponse function in miniwget.c in MiniUPnP 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted headers that trigger an out-of-bounds read.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00039.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/201
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/496
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67152
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085618
- https://github.com/miniupnp/miniupnp/commit/3a87aa2f10bd7f1408e1849bdb59c41dd63a9fe9
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-41