SB2020122814 - Multiple vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management



SB2020122814 - Multiple vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

Published: December 28, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020122814
Severity
High
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1126)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper bounds checking. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


2) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1124)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to integer overflow in libprocps's file2strvec() function. A local attacker can execute a vulnerable utility (pgrep, pidof, pkill, and w are vulnerable by default; other utilities are vulnerable if executed with non-default options) and gain elevated privileges.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.