SB2018121209 - Information disclosure in NetBSD



SB2018121209 - Information disclosure in NetBSD

Published: December 12, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018121209
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists in the handling of bozohttpd special files due to a missing check against .htpasswd itself in some cases. A remote attacker can access contents of certain special files including configuration files for bozohttpd(8) and include the standard .htpasswd file for HTTP Basic Authorisation (RFC-7617), which contains both a list of user names and their encrypted passwords.

2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists in the handling of bozohttpd special files due to improper checking the return value of bozo_check_special_files(). A remote attacker can access contents of certain special files including configuration files for bozohttpd(8) and include the standard .htpasswd file for HTTP Basic Authorisation (RFC-7617), which contains both a list of user names and their encrypted passwords.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.