Multiple vulnerabilities in Cloud Foundry Foundation cflinuxfs3

Published: 2022-04-12

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2018-16301 CVE-2020-8037
CWE-ID	CWE-125 CWE-770
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	cflinuxfs3 Other software / Other software solutions
Vendor	Cloud Foundry Foundation

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Out-of-bounds read

EUVDB-ID: #VU21949

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 2.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16301

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

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 condition in libpcap when during pcapng reading. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application that uses the affected library, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

cflinuxfs3: 0.200.0 - 0.282.0

CPE2.3

External links

http://github.com/cloudfoundry/cflinuxfs3/releases/tag/0.283.0

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

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

2) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

EUVDB-ID: #VU48587

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8037

CWE-ID: CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling