Out-of-bounds read in Western Digital products - CVE-2022-23123

 

Out-of-bounds read in Western Digital products - CVE-2022-23123

Published: March 25, 2022 / Updated: April 21, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU61621
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23123
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the getdirparams method. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.


Affected software

My Cloud PR2100
My Cloud PR4100
My Cloud EX4100
My Cloud EX2 Ultra
My Cloud Mirror Gen 2
My Cloud DL2100
My Cloud DL4100
My Cloud EX2100
WD Cloud
My Cloud
My Cloud Home
My Cloud OS 5
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
QuTScloud
Slackware Linux
Ubuntu
QuTS hero
Netatalk
QNAP QTS
netatalk (Ubuntu package)
netatalk (Debian package)
netatalk
net-fs/netatalk

How to mitigate CVE-2022-23123

Install updates from vendor's website.

My Cloud OS 5 - addressed in versions 5.19.117, 7.16-220
Netatalk - addressed in versions 2.2.7, 3.1.13
QNAP QTS - update to 4.5.4.2012 20220419
netatalk (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro, 3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.1, 3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.1, 3.1.13~ds-2ubuntu0.22.10.1
netatalk (Debian package) - update to 3.1.12~ds-8+deb11u1
netatalk - update to 3.1.16
net-fs/netatalk - update to 3.1.18

External References

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