SB2022102078 - Oracle Solaris update for third-party software

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 34 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34470)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in nsSHistory when handling XML documents. A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38177)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in the DNSSEC verification code for the ECDSA algorithm. A remote attacker can spoof the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA signature and perform denial of service attack.

3) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38178)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in the DNSSEC verification code for the EdDSA algorithm. A remote attacker can spoof the target resolver with responses that have a malformed EdDSA signature and perform denial of service attack.

4) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34305)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed to the form authentication example in the examples web application. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

5) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2226)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of digital signatures. When displaying an email that contains a digital signature, the email's date will be shown. If the dates were different, then Thunderbird didn't report the email as having an invalid signature. If an attacker performed a replay attack, in which an old email with old contents are resent at a later time, it could lead the victim to believe that the statements in the email are current.

6) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31744)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing CSS stylesheets accessible via internal URIs, as "resource:". A remote attacker can bypass implemented Content Security Policy.

7) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34468)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of the CSP sandbox header without "allow-scripts" option. A remote attacker use an iframe to bypass implemented CSP restriction and execute scripts if the user clicks on a javascript: link.

8) Error Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34472)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to influence browser behavior.

The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling when processing unavailable PAC file. If a PAC URL is set and the server that hosts the PAC is unreachable, OCSP requests are blocked, resulting in incorrect error pages being shown.

9) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2906)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in key processing when using TKEY records in Diffie-Hellman mode with OpenSSL 3.0.0 and later versions. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.

10) Improper Authorization in Handler for Custom URL Scheme (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34478)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure usage of URI handlers that allow usage of ms-msdt, search, and search-ms protocols. A remote attacker can trick the victim to click on a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary code on the system, if the victim accepts the browser prompt.

The vulnerability affects Firefox on Windows.

11) Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34479)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of resizing event for a popup window. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website that can create a resized popup to overlay the address bar with its own content and perform spoofing attack.

Note, the vulnerability affects Linux installations only.

12) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34481)

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the nsTArray_Impl::ReplaceElementsAt() function. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

13) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36319)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error, related to mouse pointer positioning when combining CSS properties for overflow and transform. A remote attacker can trick the victim into interacting with mouse cursor with different coordinates than displayed.

14) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38473)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrectly imposed security restrictions on a cross-origin iframe referencing an XSLT document. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and inherit the parent domain's permissions to access microphone or camera.

15) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38478)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

16) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3080)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when resolvers are configured to answer from stale cache with zero stale-answer-client-timeout and there is a stale CNAME in the cache for an incoming query. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the DNS resolver and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

17) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2795)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when processing large delegations. A remote attacker can flood the target resolver with queries and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

18) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1292)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the c_rehash script distributed by some operating systems. A remote attacker with ability to pass data to c_rehash script can and execute arbitrary OS commands with the privileges of the script.

19) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28196)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) implementation when processing ASN.1-encoded Kerberos messages in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application that uses Kerberos and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

20) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2274)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the RSA implementation for X86_64 CPUs supporting the AVX512IFMA instructions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

SSL/TLS servers or other servers using 2048 bit RSA private keys running on machines supporting AVX512IFMA instructions of the X86_64 architecture are affected by this issue.

21) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31627)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the finfo_buffer() PHP function. A remote attacker can pass an overly long string to the script that allocates the buffer, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

22) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-37434)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing a large gzip header within inflateGetHeader in inflate.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted file to the affected application, trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

23) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31626)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing password in mysqlnd/pdo in mysqlnd_wireprotocol.c. A remote attacker with ability to control password that is passed via PDO to MySQL server can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

24) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36359)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of user-supplied data in the FileResponse method. A remote attacker can spoof content of downloaded file and perform reflected file download (RFD) attack.

25) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2881)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when reusing HTTP connection while requesting statistics from the stats channel. A remote DNS server under attacker's control trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service attack.

26) Data Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29885)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in documentation for the EncryptInterceptor, which incorrectly stated that it enabled Tomcat clustering to run over an untrusted network. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack against the exposed EncryptInterceptor.

27) Use of uninitialized resource (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31625)

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

The vulnerability exists due to usage of uninitialized array in the pg_query_params() function. A remote attacker with ability to control query parameters can trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the system.

28) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34484)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted website, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

29) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2509)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within gnutls_pkcs7_verify() function when verifying the pkcs7 signatures. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a double free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

30) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38472)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of XSLT errors. A remote attacker can spoof the address bar and trick the user into submitting data intended for the spoofed origin.

31) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36318)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when visiting directory listings for chrome:// URLs as source text. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

32) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-26373)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to non-transparent sharing of return predictor targets between contexts in Intel CPU processors. A local user can bypass the expected architecture isolation between contexts and gain access to sensitive information on the system.

33) Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2097)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in AES OCB mode for 32-bit x86 platforms using the AES-NI assembly optimized implementation. Under specific circumstances OpenSSL does not encrypt the entire message and can reveal sixteen bytes of data that was preexisting in the memory that wasn't written. A remote attacker can gain access to potentially sensitive information.

34) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2068)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the c_rehash script distributed by some operating systems. A remote attacker with ability to pass data to c_rehash script can and execute arbitrary OS commands with the privileges of the script.

The vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU62765 (CVE-2022-1292).

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/bulletinoct2022.html