CVE-2016-7476 - Improper Input Validation

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, PSM, and WebSafe 11.6.0 before 11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.0 before 11.5.3 HF2, and 11.3.0 before 11.4.1 HF10 may suffer from a memory leak while handling certain types of TCP traffic. Remote attackers may cause a denial of service (DoS) by way of a crafted TCP packet.

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, PEM, PSM, and WebSafe 11.6.0 before 11.6.0 HF6, 11.5.0 before 11.5.3 HF2, and 11.3.0 before 11.4.1 HF10 may suffer from a memory leak while handling certain types of TCP traffic. Remote attackers may cause a denial of service (DoS) by way of a crafted TCP packet.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example demonstrates a shopping interaction in which the user is free to specify the quantity of items to be purchased and a total is calculated.


               
...

The user has no control over the price variable, however the code does not prevent a negative value from being specified for quantity. If an attacker were to provide a negative value, then the user would have their account credited instead of debited.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This example asks the user for a height and width of an m X n game board with a maximum dimension of 100 squares.


               
.../* board dimensions */
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("No integer passed: Die evil hacker!\n");
die("Value too large: Die evil hacker!\n");

While this code checks to make sure the user cannot specify large, positive integers and consume too much memory, it does not check for negative values supplied by the user. As a result, an attacker can perform a resource consumption (CWE-400) attack against this program by specifying two, large negative values that will not overflow, resulting in a very large memory allocation (CWE-789) and possibly a system crash. Alternatively, an attacker can provide very large negative values which will cause an integer overflow (CWE-190) and unexpected behavior will follow depending on how the values are treated in the remainder of the program.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example shows a PHP application in which the programmer attempts to display a user's birthday and homepage.


               
echo "Birthday: $birthday<br>Homepage: <a href=$homepage>click here</a>"

The programmer intended for $birthday to be in a date format and $homepage to be a valid URL. However, since the values are derived from an HTTP request, if an attacker can trick a victim into clicking a crafted URL with <script> tags providing the values for birthday and / or homepage, then the script will run on the client's browser when the web server echoes the content. Notice that even if the programmer were to defend the $birthday variable by restricting input to integers and dashes, it would still be possible for an attacker to provide a string of the form:


               
2009-01-09--

If this data were used in a SQL statement, it would treat the remainder of the statement as a comment. The comment could disable other security-related logic in the statement. In this case, encoding combined with input validation would be a more useful protection mechanism.

Furthermore, an XSS (CWE-79) attack or SQL injection (CWE-89) are just a few of the potential consequences when input validation is not used. Depending on the context of the code, CRLF Injection (CWE-93), Argument Injection (CWE-88), or Command Injection (CWE-77) may also be possible.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This function attempts to extract a pair of numbers from a user-supplied string.


               
}
die("Did not specify integer value. Die evil hacker!\n");
/* proceed assuming n and m are initialized correctly */

This code attempts to extract two integer values out of a formatted, user-supplied input. However, if an attacker were to provide an input of the form:


               
123:

then only the m variable will be initialized. Subsequent use of n may result in the use of an uninitialized variable (CWE-457).

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

The following example takes a user-supplied value to allocate an array of objects and then operates on the array.


               
}
list[0] = new Widget();
die("Negative value supplied for list size, die evil hacker!");

This example attempts to build a list from a user-specified value, and even checks to ensure a non-negative value is supplied. If, however, a 0 value is provided, the code will build an array of size 0 and then try to store a new Widget in the first location, causing an exception to be thrown.

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

This application has registered to handle a URL when sent an intent:


               
}......
}
}
int length = URL.length();
...

The application assumes the URL will always be included in the intent. When the URL is not present, the call to getStringExtra() will return null, thus causing a null pointer exception when length() is called.

Overview

Type

F5

First reported 7 years ago

2017-05-11 16:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-06-06 15:11:00

Affected Software

F5 Big-IP WebSafe 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 BIG-IP Protocol Security Module (PSM) 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Protocol Security Module (PSM) 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Protocol Security Module 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 Networks BIGIP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 Networks BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Link Controller 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Global Traffic Manager 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Application Security Manager 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 Networks BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Application Acceleration Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Application Acceleration Manager 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager 11.6.0

11.6.0

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.3.0

11.3.0

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.4.0

11.4.0

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.4.1

11.4.1

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.5.0

11.5.0

F5 Networks BIGIP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 11.5.1

11.5.1

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.5.2

11.5.2

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.5.3

11.5.3

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 11.6.0

11.6.0

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