CVE-2017-17840

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-17840
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-12-27 17:08:00 UTC
Updated2018-01-11 18:52:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Open-iSCSI through 2.0.875. A local attacker can cause the iscsiuio server to abort or potentially execute code by sending messages with incorrect lengths, which (due to lack of checking) can lead to buffer overflows, and result in aborts (with overflow checking enabled) or code execution. The process_iscsid_broadcast function in iscsiuio/src/unix/iscsid_ipc.c does not validate the payload length before a write operation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Open-iscsi Project Open-iscsi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 1072312 – VUL-0: CVE-2017-17840: open-iscsi: buffer overflow in process_iscsid_broadcast() MISC bugzilla.opensuse.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Bugs in iscsiuio MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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