CVE-2014-6450 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

Juniper Junos OS before 11.4R12-S4, 12.1X44 before 12.1X44-D41, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D26, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D11/D15, 12.2 before 12.2R9, 12.2X50 before 12.2X50-D70, 12.3 before 12.3R8, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D10, 12.3X50 before 12.3X50-D42, 13.1 before 13.1R4-S3, 13.1X49 before 13.1X49-D42, 13.1X50 before 13.1X50-D30, 13.2 before 13.2R6, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D26, 13.2X52 before 13.2X52-D15, 13.3 before 13.3R3-S3, 14.1 before 14.1R3, 14.2 before 14.2R1, 15.1 before 15.1R1, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D10, when configured for IPv6, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mbuf chain corruption and kernel panic) via crafted IPv6 packets.

Juniper Junos OS before 11.4R12-S4, 12.1X44 before 12.1X44-D41, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D26, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D11/D15, 12.2 before 12.2R9, 12.2X50 before 12.2X50-D70, 12.3 before 12.3R8, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D10, 12.3X50 before 12.3X50-D42, 13.1 before 13.1R4-S3, 13.1X49 before 13.1X49-D42, 13.1X50 before 13.1X50-D30, 13.2 before 13.2R6, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D26, 13.2X52 before 13.2X52-D15, 13.3 before 13.3R3-S3, 14.1 before 14.1R3, 14.2 before 14.2R1, 15.1 before 15.1R1, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D10, when configured for IPv6, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mbuf chain corruption and kernel panic) via crafted IPv6 packets.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Demo Examples

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

This example takes an IP address from a user, verifies that it is well formed and then looks up the hostname and copies it into a buffer.


               
}
strcpy(hostname, hp->h_name);/*routine that ensures user_supplied_addr is in the right format for conversion */

This function allocates a buffer of 64 bytes to store the hostname, however there is no guarantee that the hostname will not be larger than 64 bytes. If an attacker specifies an address which resolves to a very large hostname, then we may overwrite sensitive data or even relinquish control flow to the attacker.

Note that this example also contains an unchecked return value (CWE-252) that can lead to a NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476).

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

This example applies an encoding procedure to an input string and stores it into a buffer.


               
}
return dst_buf;
die("user string too long, die evil hacker!");
else dst_buf[dst_index++] = user_supplied_string[i];
dst_buf[dst_index++] = ';';
/* encode to < */

The programmer attempts to encode the ampersand character in the user-controlled string, however the length of the string is validated before the encoding procedure is applied. Furthermore, the programmer assumes encoding expansion will only expand a given character by a factor of 4, while the encoding of the ampersand expands by 5. As a result, when the encoding procedure expands the string it is possible to overflow the destination buffer if the attacker provides a string of many ampersands.

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

The following example asks a user for an offset into an array to select an item.


               
}
printf("You selected %s\n", items[index-1]);

The programmer allows the user to specify which element in the list to select, however an attacker can provide an out-of-bounds offset, resulting in a buffer over-read (CWE-126).

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

In the following code, the method retrieves a value from an array at a specific array index location that is given as an input parameter to the method


               
}
return value;// check that the array index is less than the maximum// length of the array
value = array[index];// get the value at the specified index of the array
// if array index is invalid then output error message// and return value indicating error
value = -1;

However, this method only verifies that the given array index is less than the maximum length of the array but does not check for the minimum value (CWE-839). This will allow a negative value to be accepted as the input array index, which will result in a out of bounds read (CWE-125) and may allow access to sensitive memory. The input array index should be checked to verify that is within the maximum and minimum range required for the array (CWE-129). In this example the if statement should be modified to include a minimum range check, as shown below.


               
...// check that the array index is within the correct// range of values for the array

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Windows provides the _mbs family of functions to perform various operations on multibyte strings. When these functions are passed a malformed multibyte string, such as a string containing a valid leading byte followed by a single null byte, they can read or write past the end of the string buffer causing a buffer overflow. The following functions all pose a risk of buffer overflow: _mbsinc _mbsdec _mbsncat _mbsncpy _mbsnextc _mbsnset _mbsrev _mbsset _mbsstr _mbstok _mbccpy _mbslen

Overview

Type

Juniper

First reported 9 years ago

2015-10-16 20:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-12-08 03:06:00

Affected Software

Juniper JUNOS 12.1X44

12.1x44

Juniper Junos 12.1x44 D10

12.1x44

Juniper Junos 12.1x44 D15

12.1x44

Juniper Junos 12.1x44 D20

12.1x44

Juniper Junos 12.1x44 D25

12.1x44

Juniper Junos 12.1x44 D30

12.1x44

Juniper JUNOS 12.1X44-D35

12.1x44

Juniper Junos 12.1x44 D40

12.1x44

Juniper JUNOS 12.1X46

12.1x46

Juniper Junos 12.1x46 D10

12.1x46

Juniper Junos 12.1x46 D15

12.1x46

Juniper JUNOS 12.1X46-D20

12.1x46

Juniper Junos 12.1x46 D25

12.1x46

Juniper JUNOS 12.1X47

12.1x47

Juniper JUNOS 12.1X47-D10

12.1x47

Juniper JunOS 12.1x47 D15

12.1x47

Juniper JUNOS 12.2

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R1

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R2

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R3

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R4

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R5

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R6

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R7

12.2

Juniper Junos 12.2 R8

12.2

Juniper JUNOS 12.2X65

12.2x65

Juniper JUNOS 12.3

12.3

Juniper Junos 12.3 R1

12.3

Juniper Junos 12.3 R2

12.3

Juniper Junos 12.3 R3

12.3

Juniper Junos 12.3 R4

12.3

Juniper Junos 12.3 R5

12.3

Juniper Junos 12.3 R6

12.3

Juniper JUNOS 12.3R7

12.3

Juniper JUNOS 12.3X50

12.3x50

Juniper JUNOS 12.3X50 D20

12.3x50

Juniper JUNOS 12.3X50 D30

12.3x50

Juniper JUNOS 12.3X50 D35

12.3x50

Juniper JUNOS 12.3X50 D40

12.3x50

Juniper JUNOS 13.1

13.1

Juniper Junos 13.1 R1

13.1

Juniper Junos 13.1 R2

13.1

Juniper Junos 13.1 R3

13.1

Juniper Junos 13.1 R4

13.1

Juniper JUNOS 13.1R4-S2

13.1

Juniper JUNOS 13.1X49 D45

13.1x49

Juniper JUNOS 13.1 13.1X50 D25

13.1x50

Juniper JUNOS 13.2

13.2

Juniper Junos 13.2 R1

13.2

Juniper Junos 13.2 R2

13.2

Juniper Junos 13.2 R3

13.2

Juniper Junos 13.2 R4

13.2

Juniper JUNOS 13.2R5

13.2

Juniper JunOS 13.2x51 D15

13.2x51

Juniper Junos 13.2X51 D20

13.2x51

Juniper Junos 13.2X51 D25

13.2x51

Juniper Junos 13.2X52 D10

13.2x52

Juniper Junos 13.2X52 D15

13.2x52

Juniper JUNOS 13.3

13.3

Juniper Junos 13.3 R1

13.3

Juniper Junos 13.3 R2

13.3

Juniper Junos 13.3 R3

13.3

Juniper JUNOS 14.1

14.1

Juniper JUNOS 14.1R1

14.1

Juniper Junos 14.1 R2

14.1

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