#VU33387 Out-of-bounds read - CVE-2019-12790

Vulnerability identifier: #VU33387

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 5.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12790

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Local

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in In radare2 through 3.5.1, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the r_egg_lang_parsechar function of egg_lang.c. This. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of missing length validation in libr/egg/egg.c.

Mitigation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

External links
https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/14211
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IEXZWAMVKGZKHALV4IVWQS2ORJKRH57U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SX4TLTE75VYUGSPYEKMYFPUZMRDIR7O2/

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Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.