SB2020042369 - Multiple vulnerabilities in OSS Support Tools

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SB2020042369 - Multiple vulnerabilities in OSS Support Tools

Published: April 23, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020042369
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15601)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied URL. A remote attacker can pass  URL to the SMB share using the "file://" URI handler and read arbitrary files from local resources.

Example: file://localhost//hostname/home/secret.txt

Note, this issue affects Windows installations only.


2) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5482)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the tftp_receive_packet() function when processing TFTP data. A remote attacker can send specially crafted TFTP response to the vulnerable curl client, trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References