SB20240417104 - Oracle Solaris update for thrid-party components



SB20240417104 - Oracle Solaris update for thrid-party components

Published: April 17, 2024 Updated: December 13, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB20240417104
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 29
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 28% Medium 62% Low 10%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 29 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6516)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing specific recursive patterns. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack against the DNS resolver.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2616)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


3) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2614)

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 webpage, 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.


4) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2612)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website to trigger a particular code path in SafeRefPtr and execute arbitrary code on the system.

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


5) Multiple Interpretations of UI Input (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2611)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform clickjacking attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a missing delay on the pointer lock. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and perform a clickjacking attack.


6) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2610)

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

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling HTML code. A remote attacker with ability to inject HTML code into the page (e.g. using an XSS vulnerability) can obtain CSP nonce and bypass strict content security policies.


7) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2608)

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

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow within the AppendEncodedAttributeValue(), ExtraSpaceNeededForAttrEncoding() and AppendEncodedCharacters() 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.


8) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2607)

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

The vulnerability exists due to the JIT code fails to save return registers on Armv7-A systems. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the system.


9) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2605)

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

The vulnerability exists due to an error in the Windows Error Reporter implementation. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and run arbitrary code on the system escaping the sandbox.

Note, the vulnerability affects Windows installations only.


10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24549)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP/2 requests to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


11) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22019)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing HTTP requests with chunked encoding. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP request to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


12) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21896)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in Buffer.prototype.utf8Write. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.


13) Inconsistency between implementation and documented design (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21890)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of wildcards in --allow-fs-read and --allow-fs-write. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.


14) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-52356)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input within the TIFFReadRGBATileExt() API. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


15) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5679)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion caused by a bad interaction between DNS64 and serve-stale. A remote attacker can query a DNS64-enabled resolver for domain names triggering serve-stale.


16) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-51257)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input within the jas_icctxt_input() function in jas_icc.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


17) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5517)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when querying RFC 1918 reverse zones. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted DNS query and perform a denial of service attack.


18) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4408)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing DNS messages. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


19) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-50387)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing DNSSEC related records. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by forcing the DNS server to query a specially crafted DNSSEC zone and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


20) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-0727)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error when processing fields in the PKCS12 certificate. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted certificate to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


21) Covert timing channel (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5388)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient fix for #VU84108 (CVE-2023-4421). A remote attacker can perform Marvin attack and gain access to sensitive information.


22) Information exposure through microarchitectural state after transient execution (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40982)

The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to the way data is shared between threads whereby the AVX GATHER instructions on Intel processors can forward the content of stale vector registers to dependent instructions. A malicious guest can infer data from different contexts on the same core and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.


23) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-24806)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling hostnames longer than 256 characters within the uv_getaddrinfo() function in src/unix/getaddrinfo.c and its windows counterpart src/win/getaddrinfo.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted hostname to the application, which can be resolved to an attacker controlled IP address and initiate unauthorized requests to arbitrary systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.


24) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-23672)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can keep WebSocket connections open for a long time to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


25) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21891)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.


26) Unchecked Return Value (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-0743)

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

The vulnerability exists due to an unchecked return value in TLS handshake code in NSS TLS method. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted website and execute arbitrary code on the system.


27) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-52355)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input within the TIFFRasterScanlineSize64() API. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.


28) Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-51765)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to spoof email messages.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when handling line endings other than <CR><LF>. A remote attacker can spoof contents of email message and bypass SPF protection mechanism.



29) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-50868)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing DNSSEC related records. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by forcing the DNS server to query a specially crafted DNSSEC zone and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.