Resource management error in jack2 - CVE-2019-13351
Published: October 6, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU67957
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13351
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources in posix/JackSocket.cpp in libjack caused by a double file descriptor close issue during a failed connection attempt when jackd2 is not running. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information of corrupt files on the system, resulting in a DoS attack.
Affected software
jack2
Ubuntu
jackd2 (Ubuntu package)
jackd2-firewire (Ubuntu package)
libjack-jackd2-0 (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
jackd2 (Ubuntu package)
jackd2-firewire (Ubuntu package)
libjack-jackd2-0 (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13351
Install updates from vendor's website.
jack2 - update to 1.9.13
jackd2 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg1ubuntu1+esm1
jackd2-firewire (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg1ubuntu1+esm1
libjack-jackd2-0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg1ubuntu1+esm1
jackd2 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg1ubuntu1+esm1
jackd2-firewire (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg1ubuntu1+esm1
libjack-jackd2-0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg1ubuntu1+esm1