CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-1089

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Published: May 09, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

389-ds-base before versions 1.4.0.9, 1.3.8.1, 1.3.6.15 did not properly handle long search filters with characters needing escapes, possibly leading to buffer overflows. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to make ns-slapd crash via a specially crafted LDAP request, thus resulting in denial of service.

Weakness

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
389_directory_server Fedoraproject 1.3.6.0 (including) 1.3.6.15 (excluding)
389_directory_server Fedoraproject 1.4.0.0 (including) 1.4.0.9 (excluding)
389_directory_server Fedoraproject 1.3.8.1 (including) 1.3.8.1 (including)
389_directory_server Fedoraproject 1.3.8.2 (including) 1.3.8.2 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat 389-ds-base-0:1.2.11.15-95.el6_9 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat 389-ds-base-0:1.3.7.5-21.el7_5 *
389-ds-base Ubuntu artful *
389-ds-base Ubuntu bionic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu cosmic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
389-ds-base Ubuntu trusty *
389-ds-base Ubuntu upstream *
389-ds-base Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

  • Use automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking.
  • D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail.
  • Run or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program’s executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code.
  • Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as “rebasing” (for Windows) and “prelinking” (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking.
  • For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335].

References