CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-41309

Out-of-bounds Write

Published: Oct 21, 2022 | Modified: Oct 24, 2022
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A malicious crafted .dwf or .pct file when consumed through DesignReview.exe application could lead to memory corruption vulnerability by write access violation. This vulnerability in conjunction with other vulnerabilities could lead to code execution in the context of the current process.

Weakness

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Autocad Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_advance_steel Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_advance_steel Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_advance_steel Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_advance_steel Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_advance_steel Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_architecture Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_architecture Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_architecture Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_architecture Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_architecture Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_civil_3d Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_civil_3d Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_civil_3d Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_civil_3d Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_civil_3d Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_electrical Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_electrical Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_electrical Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_electrical Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_electrical Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_lt Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_lt Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_lt Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_lt Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_lt Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_map_3d Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_map_3d Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_map_3d Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_map_3d Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_map_3d Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_mechanical Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_mechanical Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_mechanical Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_mechanical Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_mechanical Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_mep Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_mep Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_mep Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_mep Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_mep Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Autocad_plant_3d Autodesk 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Autocad_plant_3d Autodesk 2020 (including) 2020 (including)
Autocad_plant_3d Autodesk 2021 (including) 2021 (including)
Autocad_plant_3d Autodesk 2022 (including) 2022 (including)
Autocad_plant_3d Autodesk 2023 (including) 2023 (including)
Design_review Autodesk 2018 (including) 2018 (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.

  • For example, many languages that perform their own memory management, such as Java and Perl, are not subject to buffer overflows. Other languages, such as Ada and C#, typically provide overflow protection, but the protection can be disabled by the programmer.

  • Be wary that a language’s interface to native code may still be subject to overflows, even if the language itself is theoretically safe.

  • Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.

  • Examples include the Safe C String Library (SafeStr) by Messier and Viega [REF-57], and the Strsafe.h library from Microsoft [REF-56]. These libraries provide safer versions of overflow-prone string-handling functions.

  • 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.

  • Consider adhering to the following rules when allocating and managing an application’s memory:

  • 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].

  • Use a CPU and operating system that offers Data Execution Protection (using hardware NX or XD bits) or the equivalent techniques that simulate this feature in software, such as PaX [REF-60] [REF-61]. These techniques ensure that any instruction executed is exclusively at a memory address that is part of the code segment.

  • For more information on these techniques see D3-PSEP (Process Segment Execution Prevention) from D3FEND [REF-1336].

References