Stack overflows and out of bounds read in dpkg (Debian)
Two stack overflows and one stack out of bounds access were fixed in dpkg, the package management tool from Debian.
A call to the function read_line didn't consider a trailing zero byte in the target buffer and thus could cause a one byte stack overflow with a zero byte. This issue was already fixed in the testing code when I reported it, but the fix wasn't backported to stable yet.
Git commit / fix
Minimal PoC file
The Debian developers consider this as non-exploitable, therefore no CVE got assigned.
A second almost identical stack overflow due to a call to the function read_line was in the same file.
Minimal PoC file
This issues got the id CVE-2015-0860.
A stack out of bounds read can happen in the function dpkg_ar_normalize_name. There is a read access to an array where the index can have the value -1. A check if the index is a positive value fixes this.
Minimal PoC file
All issues were found with the help of american fuzzy lop and address sanitizer.
Debian has published the advisory DSA 3407-1. Fixes packages for both stable (Jessie) and oldstable (Wheezy) have been published.
Ubuntu has published the advisory USN-2820-1. Fixed packages for Ubuntu 15.10, 15.04 and the LTS versions 14.04 and 12.04 have been published.
The updates fix all three issues. All users of Ubuntu, Debian and other dpkg/apt-based distributions should update.
A call to the function read_line didn't consider a trailing zero byte in the target buffer and thus could cause a one byte stack overflow with a zero byte. This issue was already fixed in the testing code when I reported it, but the fix wasn't backported to stable yet.
Git commit / fix
Minimal PoC file
The Debian developers consider this as non-exploitable, therefore no CVE got assigned.
A second almost identical stack overflow due to a call to the function read_line was in the same file.
Minimal PoC file
This issues got the id CVE-2015-0860.
A stack out of bounds read can happen in the function dpkg_ar_normalize_name. There is a read access to an array where the index can have the value -1. A check if the index is a positive value fixes this.
Minimal PoC file
All issues were found with the help of american fuzzy lop and address sanitizer.
Debian has published the advisory DSA 3407-1. Fixes packages for both stable (Jessie) and oldstable (Wheezy) have been published.
Ubuntu has published the advisory USN-2820-1. Fixed packages for Ubuntu 15.10, 15.04 and the LTS versions 14.04 and 12.04 have been published.
The updates fix all three issues. All users of Ubuntu, Debian and other dpkg/apt-based distributions should update.
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G on :
Is CVE-2015-0860 issued for both stack overflows?
Thank you.
Hanno Böck on :
Ok, clarification: The CVE is only for the second issue, because Debian has analyzed the first one and decided that it is not exploitable.
All three issues (both stack overflows and the out of bounds bug) have been fixed in the updated packages.