Security restrictions bypass in mbed TLS - CVE-2017-18187

 

Security restrictions bypass in mbed TLS - CVE-2017-18187

Published: March 15, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11120
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-18187
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: ARM
Affected software:
mbed TLS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to integer overflow in PSK identity parsing in the ssl_parse_client_psk_identity() function in library/ssl_srv.c. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and bypass bounds-check.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-18187

Install update from vendor's website.

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