Executive Summary

Summary
Title MiniUPnPc: Buffer overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-41 First vendor Publication 2017-01-17
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-17
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A buffer overflow in MiniUPnPc might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

UPnP client library and a simple UPnP client.

Description

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in the getHTTPResponse function in miniwget.c in MiniUPnPc.

Impact

Remote attackers, through specially crafted headers, could cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All MiniUPnPc users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=net-libs/miniupnpc-1.9.20150427"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-3985 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3985

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-41

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-41.xml

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25146
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:25146
Title: USN-2280-1 -- miniupnpc vulnerability
Description: MiniUPnPc could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2280-1
CVE-2014-3985
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.04
 Product(s): miniupnpc
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-41.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2280-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2014-431.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-11 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2014-120.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-01-19 13:25:05
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-17 13:20:50
  • First insertion