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CVE-2023-25565: Release Patched several CVEs reported by GitHub Security Lab · gssapi/gss-ntlmssp
GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, an incorrect free when decoding target information can trigger a denial of service. The error condition incorrectly assumes the cb
and sh
buffers contain a copy of the data that needs to be freed. However, that is not the case. This vulnerability can be triggered via the main gss_accept_sec_context
entry point. This will likely trigger an assertion failure in free
, causing a denial-of-service. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.
This a security release.
It comes after GitHub Security Lab reported to use a few low/moderate issues discovered via oss-fuzz and reported to us by @philipturnbull
These Advisories cover the issues in details:
- CVE-2023-25563
- CVE-2023-25564
- CVE-2023-25565
- CVE-2023-25566
- CVE-2023-25567
What’s Changed
- Implement gss_set_cred_option by @simo5 in #76
- Allow to gss_wrap even if NEGOTIATE_SEAL is not negotiated by @simo5 in #78
- Move HMAC code to OpenSSL EVP API by @simo5 in #82
- Fix crash bug when acceptor credentials are NULL by @simo5 in #84
- Translations update from Fedora Weblate by @weblate in #85
Full Changelog: v1.1.0…v1.2.0
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3097-01 - The gssntlmssp is a GSSAPI NTLM mechanism that allows to perform NTLM authentication in GSSAPI programs. Issues addressed include memory leak and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.
An update for gssntlmssp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-25563: A flaw was found in GSS-NTLMSSP, a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Multiple out-of-bounds reads occur when decoding NTLM fields and can trigger a denial of service. A 32-bit integer overflow condition can lead to incorrect checks of the consistency of the length of internal buffers. Although most app...
GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, a memory leak can be triggered when parsing usernames which can trigger a denial-of-service. The domain portion of a username may be overridden causing an allocated memory area the size of the domain name to be leaked. An attacker can leak memory via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point, potentially causing a denial-of-service. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.
GSS-NTLMSSP, a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication, has an out-of-bounds read when decoding target information prior to version 1.2.0. The length of the `av_pair` is not checked properly for two of the elements which can trigger an out-of-bound read. The out-of-bounds read can be triggered via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point and could cause a denial-of-service if the memory is unmapped. The issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.
GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, memory corruption can be triggered when decoding UTF16 strings. The variable `outlen` was not initialized and could cause writing a zero to an arbitrary place in memory if `ntlm_str_convert()` were to fail, which would leave `outlen` uninitialized. This can lead to a denial of service if the write hits unmapped memory or randomly corrupts a byte in the application memory space. This vulnerability can trigger an out-of-bounds write, leading to memory corruption. This vulnerability can be triggered via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.
GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, multiple out-of-bounds reads when decoding NTLM fields can trigger a denial of service. A 32-bit integer overflow condition can lead to incorrect checks of consistency of length of internal buffers. Although most applications will error out before accepting a singe input buffer of 4GB in length this could theoretically happen. This vulnerability can be triggered via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point if the application allows tokens greater than 4GB in length. This can lead to a large, up to 65KB, out-of-bounds read which could cause a denial-of-service if it reads from unmapped memory. Version 1.2.0 contains a patch for the out-of-bounds reads.