MITKRB5-SA-2011-008 buffer overflow in telnetd [CVE-2011-4862]

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MITKRB5-SA-2011-008

MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2011-008
Original release: 2011-12-26
Last update: 2011-12-26

Topic: buffer overflow in telnetd

CVE-2011-4862

CVSSv2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSSv2 Base Score: 10

Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete
Availability Impact: Complete

CVSSv2 Temporal Score: 8.3

Exploitability: Functional
Remediation Level: Official Fix
Report Confidence: Confirmed

SUMMARY

The telnet daemon (telnetd) in MIT krb5 (and in krb5-appl after the
applications were moved to a separate distribution for krb5-1.8) is
vulnerable to a buffer overflow. The flaw does not require
authentication to exploit. Exploit code is reported to be actively
used in the wild.

IMPACT

An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a buffer overflow and
probably execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the telnet
daemon (normally root).

AFFECTED SOFTWARE

The telnet daemon in all releases of MIT krb5 prior to krb5-1.8 is
vulnerable. Later releases moved the telnet code to the krb5-appl
distribution.
The telnet daemon in all releases of krb5-appl is vulnerable.

FIXES

Workaround: Disable telnet and use a more secure remote login
solution, such as SSH.
A future release of krb5-appl will fix this vulnerability.
Apply the following patch:

diff --git a/telnet/libtelnet/encrypt.c b/telnet/libtelnet/encrypt.c
index f75317d…b8d6cdd 100644

— a/telnet/libtelnet/encrypt.c
+++ b/telnet/libtelnet/encrypt.c
@@ -757,6 +757,9 @@ static void encrypt_keyid(kp, keyid, len)
int dir = kp->dir;
register int ret = 0;

```
  if &#40;len &gt; MAXKEYLEN&#41;
```
```
          len = MAXKEYLEN;
```
```
  if &#40;!&#40;ep = &#40;*kp-&gt;getcrypt&#41;&#40;*kp-&gt;modep&#41;&#41;&#41; {
          if &#40;len == 0&#41;
                  return;
```
This patch is also available at

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2011-008-patch.txt

A PGP-signed patch is available at

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2011-008-patch.txt.asc

REFERENCES

This announcement is posted at:

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-008.txt

This announcement and related security advisories may be found on the
MIT Kerberos security advisory page at:

    http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/index.html

The main MIT Kerberos web page is at:

    http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/index.html

CVSSv2:

http://www.first.org/cvss/cvss-guide.html
http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&amp;adv&amp;version=2

CVE: CVE-2011-4862
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4862

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2011-December/006117.html

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We became aware of this vulnerability through a FreeBSD security
advisory.

CONTACT

The MIT Kerberos Team security contact address is
<[email protected]>. When sending sensitive information,
please PGP-encrypt it using the following key:

pub 2048R/56CD8F76 2010-12-29 [expires: 2012-02-01]
uid MIT Kerberos Team Security Contact <[email protected]>

DETAILS

If the telnetd receives an ENCRYPT suboption that includes a key ID,
encrypt_keyid() in libtelnet/encrypt.c copies the suboption contents
into a fixed-size static buffer without first constraining the length,
leading to a buffer overflow.