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Unscored CVE-2017-9106 EUVD-2017-18044GHSA-chm6-j4h2-5qc7

An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. adns_rr_info mishandles a bogus *datap. The general pattern for formatting integers is to spr…

Published Jun 18, 2020 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in adns before 1.5.2. adns_rr_info mishandles a bogus *datap. The general pattern for formatting integers is to sprintf into a fixed-size buffer. This is correct if the input is in the right range; if it isn't, the buffer may be overrun (depending on the sizes of the types on the current platform). Of course the inputs ought to be right. And there are pointers in there too, so perhaps one could say that the caller ought to check these things. It may be better to require the caller to make the pointer structure right, but to have the code here be defensive about (and tolerate with an error but without crashing) out-of-range integer values. So: it should defend each of these integer conversion sites with a check for the actual permitted range, and return adns_s_invaliddata if not. The lack of this check causes the SOA sign extension bug to be a serious security problem: the sign extended SOA value is out of range, and overruns the buffer when reconverted. This is related to sign extending SOA 32-bit integer fields, and use of a signed data type.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 adns 1.6.0-2 —
Debian 13 adns 1.6.0-2 —
Debian 12 adns 1.6.0-2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS adns No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS adns No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS adns No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 12 SP5 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES 12 SP4 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES 12 SP3 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES 12 SP2 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES 11 SP4 adns 1.4-75.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:14399-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP4 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP3 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP2 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3 adns 1.4-75.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:14399-1
SUSE HPE Helion OpenStack 8 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 adns 1.4-103.3.1 SUSE-SU-2020:1612-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.1 adns 1.5.1-lp151.3.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2020:0827-1

Advisories 3

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