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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:45:06 +0200
From: Raimo Niskanen <raimo@...x.ericsson.se>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, Rickard Green
	<rickard@...ang.org>, Bjorn-Egil Dahlberg <psyeugenic@...il.com>, Sverker
 Eriksson <sverker@...ang.org>, Patrik Nyblom <pan@...ang.org>, Raimo Niskanen
	<raimo@...ang.org>, Bjorn Gustavsson <bjorn@...ang.org>, Niclas Axelsson
	<burbas@...ang.org>, Hans Bolinder <hasse@...ang.org>,
	<kenneth.lundin@...csson.com>, <lars.thorsen@...csson.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Erlang/OTP R14, Erlang/OTP R14B01, Erlang/OTP R14B02 -- multiple security fixes

I had to look it up: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:13:37PM +0200, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Steve, vendors,
> 
>   based on:
>   [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619857
> 
>   and:
>   [2] http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B.readme
>   [3] http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B01.readme
>   [4] http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B02.readme
> 
> performed some initial issues review -- erlang-CVE-request.txt
> attached. But since not sure, which of those are real security
> flaws and how many CVE ids will be needed for those, Cc-ing
> also Erlang upstream developers to shed more light into this.
> 
> The distribution of OTPs is as follows:
> =======================================
> Rickard Green:          OTP-8810, OTP-8781, OTP-8925, OTP-9005, OTP-8999
> Bjorn-Egil Dahlberg:    OTP-8814, OTP-8827, OTP-8943
> Sverker Eriksson:       OTP-8945, OTP-8716
> Patrik Nyblom:          OTP-7178, OTP-8780, OTP-8993
> Raimo Niskanen:         OTP-8729, OTP-8795

OTP-8729. Bugfix. An UDP connect error showed up delayed when the socket
	  was used.
OTP-8795. Bugfix. inet:getsockopt for SCTP sctp_default_send_param failed
	  to set a query field, causing query for random assoc_id instead
	  of specified.


> Bjorn Gustavsson:       OTP-8831, OTP-8892, OTP-9117
> Niclas Axelsson:        OTP-9101
> Hans Bolinder:          OTP-8898
> 
> Rickard, Bjorn-Egil, Sverker, Patrik, Raimo, Bjorn, Niclas, Hans,
> could you please have a look at the attached review file
> and reply which of the #20 OTPs in the list are security flaws
> (so we would know the count of CVE identifiers needed) and which
> are just bugs? (since you know the Erlang code better than me)
> 
> Help / guidance from your side is really appreciated to resolve
> this one.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your time and cooperation.
> 
> Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

> crypto:
>    - 1), multiple memory leaks OTP-8810
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d834040eeb1383157320a650984a47bb02bbb2d1
>      Note: Hard to tell if has security implications, but from the patch looks certain
>            memory content leaks were possible
> 
>    - 2), rc4 not working correctly (silent data corruption) OTP-8781
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0bcb7009fe4f3bbdf630c226d7e7335f9c005cf0
>      Note: Seems to be just bugfix
>      From the patch log: RC4 stream cipher didn't work.
> 
> erl_interface:
>    - 3), ei: prevent overflow in ei_connect_init and ei_xconnect OTP-8814
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/6e66a59544a4816c49d2d4ae4bfa4f408403a1ab
>      Note: security, stack based buffer overflow possible
> 
>    - 4), erl_call: fix multiple buffer overflows OTP-8827
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f4843545086e6e79642e86f84aba0cff789d575b
>      Note: security, multiple heap overflows possible
> 
>    - 5), Check the length of the node name to prevent an overflow OTP-8943
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/29b572dbd1546796a0a94066548edfa3da6b4b9d
>      Note: security
> 
>    - 6), erl_term_len() in erl_interface could returned wrong length OTP-8945
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/c7fa778ae11c33f4568fbfd91d58550c781b54d6
>      Note: Hard to tell if has security implications
> erts:
>    - 7), error with list_to_float("1.0e-324") in some VMs OTP-7178 
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/1297a3ade2851be787a4c6a64d5f57d81761c8f5
>      Note: ignore underflow in list_to_float and return 0.0
> 
>    - 8), Fix faulty 64-bit integer term output from drivers (crash or silent data corruption) OTP-8716
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d2f1c68969d2c32a1310aa52b66209ef4c3aed97
>      Note: security     
> 
>    - 9), gen_udp:connect/3 was broken for SCTP enabled builds. OTP-8729
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/2a6db0111898f25f5c615ce9b7f4e6ef84381a03
>      Note: seems to be just bugfix     
Bugfix. See above.

> 
>    - 10), Removed some potential vulnerabilities from epmd OTP-8780
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/bbf3ab21b404aedbf9c7b7062b1e96062133fe44
>      Note: security
>      From patch log: Remove two buffer overflow vulnerabilities in EPMD 
>          
>    - 11), wrong return code for http sockets {ok,{http_error,String}} OTP-8831
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/c2d085e76f38467ea530b294edd3767ade88332c
>      Note: seems to be just bugfix
> 
>    - 12), Multiple Buffer overflows have been prevented OTP-8892
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/c7f811b03aca427fbea0cac5307b81fa19bddbc1
>      Note: security
>      From patch log: 
>        * ms/security-fixes: erlc: remove unused variable, typer: prevent buffer overflows,
>          run_test: prevent buffer overflow, heart: prevent buffer overflow,
>          escript: prevent buffer overflows, erlexec: prevent buffer overflows, 
>          erlc: prevent buffer overflows, dialyzer: prevent buffer overflows
>  
>    - 13), The ERTS internal rwlock implementation could get into an inconsistent state OTP-8925
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f1c8231c16ca4cc8ef39318364ac8a1c8d7d56e1
>      Note: Assertion failure, but not sure if exploitable for DoS
> 
>    - 14), Some malformed distribution messages could cause VM to crash OTP-8993
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/663a15d616647d0019bc834d20de517fd9aeadd7
>      Note: security
>      From patch log: Teach VM not to dump core on bad dist message structure
> 
>    - 15), A bug in the exit/2 BIF could potentially cause an emulator crash OTP-9005
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/962a313807f96f38f3bf40a5e8cd855ad09deccb
>      Note: Not sure if has security implications
> 
>    - 16), Potentially emulator crash when deleting an ETS-table OTP-8999
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f4f3beb158352b23959c09f8b0dfc83013d5fdf2
>      Note: Not sure if has security implications
> 
>    - 17), Attempting to create binaries exceeding 2Gb (using for
>      example term_to_binary/1) would crash the emulator OTP-9117
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/1f07334d042e478d385caa0d7634ebfa6703f27a
>      Note: Hard to tell if has security implications
>     
> hipe:
>    - 18), Fix bug in the simplification of inexact comparisons OTP-9101
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e454e0f3d45c30fcb24f6e06a9e1f7408a8db5d7
>      Note: Seems to be just bugfix
> 
> kernel:
>    - 19), inet:getsockopt for SCTP sctp_default_send_param, random answers OTP-8795
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/9ea58dff408c0c72f5a6ad0e11b521a80292b024
>      Note: Seems to be just bugfix
Bugfix. See above.

> 
> stdlib:
>    - 20), race condition/silent data corruption in dets OTP-8898
>      Patch: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/4e79fa3b1b6797f2583848d307d6b85cec94a920
>      Note: Hard to tell if has security implications
> 
> Note: Are there potentially more ones, I missed?
> =====


-- 

/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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