SB2022012748 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications Session Border Controller
Published: January 27, 2022 Updated: August 9, 2022
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Off-by-one (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23017)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to an off-by-one error within the ngx_resolver_copy() function when processing DNS responses. A remote attacker can trigger an off-by-one error, write a dot character (‘.’, 0x2E) out of bounds in a heap allocated buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
The vulnerability can be triggered by a DNS response in reply to a DNS request from nginx when the resolver primitive is configured. A specially crafted packet allows overwriting the least significant byte of next heap chunk metadata with 0x2E.
2) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-33909)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow during size_t-to-int conversion when creating, mounting, and deleting a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB. An unprivileged local user can write up to 10-byte string to an offset of exactly -2GB-10B below the beginning of a vmalloc()ated kernel buffer.
Successful exploitation of vulnerability may allow an attacker to exploit the our-of-bounds write vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.