oss-security - Re: net-snmp snmp_pdu_parse() function incompletely initializaition vulnerability

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Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:06:48 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: CVE Assignments MITRE <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: net-snmp snmp_pdu_parse() function incompletely
 initializaition vulnerability

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:05:57PM +0200, Stefan Cornelius wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:44:04 +0800
> 罗大龙 <luodalongde@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > HI there,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Greeting! This is Qinghao Tang from QIHU 360  company, China. I am a
> > security researcher there.
> > 
> > I'm writing to apply for a CVE ID, for a 0day vulnerability in
> > net-snmp. Please refer to below report.
> > 
> 
> The upstream patch is here:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/f23bcd3ac6ddee5d0a48f9703007ccc738914791/
> 
> As linked from the commit, the (currently restricted) upstream bug is:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2615/
> 
> Although this leads to crashes at different locations, all of them can
> be attributed to snmp_pdu_parse() leaving stale netsnmp_variable_list
> items in the list, so I think one CVE should be enough.
> 
> 
> In case anyone is interested, the Red Hat bug is:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212408

Explicitly adding MITREs CVE assignment team to the CC list.

Any news on this? Unfortunately the upstream bug report ist still
restricted.

Thanks and regards,
Salvatore

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