CVE-2023-25564CWE-787

GSS-NTLMSSP vulnerable to memory corruption when decoding UTF16 strings

Medium · published February 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
80.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

GSS-NTLMSSP is a mechglue plugin for the GSSAPI library that implements NTLM authentication. Prior to version 1.2.0, memory corruption can be triggered when decoding UTF16 strings. The variable `outlen` was not initialized and could cause writing a zero to an arbitrary place in memory if `ntlm_str_convert()` were to fail, which would leave `outlen` uninitialized. This can lead to a denial of service if the write hits unmapped memory or randomly corrupts a byte in the application memory space. This vulnerability can trigger an out-of-bounds write, leading to memory corruption. This vulnerability can be triggered via the main `gss_accept_sec_context` entry point. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01942 · 80.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2023-02-14T17:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 FEB 17:35Z
    GSS-NTLMSSP vulnerable to memory corruption when decoding UTF16 strings
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