Oracle MySQL Cluster up to 7.3.5 CLSTCONF memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle MySQL Cluster up to 7.3.5. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component CLSTCONF. The manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2014-1912. The attack can be launched remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle MySQL Cluster up to 7.3.5 (Database Software). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component CLSTCONF. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the socket.recvfrom_into function in Modules/socketmodule.c in Python 2.5 before 2.7.7, 3.x before 3.3.4, and 3.4.x before 3.4rc1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string.

The bug was discovered 01/14/2014. The weakness was disclosed 07/19/2017 by ryan as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2017 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-1912 since 02/07/2014. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Python. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 45 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 72748 (Amazon Linux AMI : python26 (ALAS-2014-292)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 350417 (Amazon Linux Security Advisory for python26: AL2012-2015-094).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (31875), Tenable (72748) and SecurityFocus (BID 65379†). The entries VDB-12225, VDB-66486, VDB-103912 and VDB-103959 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2017
Researcher: Ryan Smith-Roberts (ryan)
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CVE: CVE-2014-1912 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-1912
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-104082

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SecurityFocus: 65379 - Python 'sock_recvfrom_into()' Function Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1029831

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 07/20/2017 00:10
Updated: 04/12/2025 22:12
Changes: 07/20/2017 00:10 (68), 10/27/2019 11:51 (21), 01/04/2021 10:23 (2), 01/04/2021 10:28 (1), 12/03/2024 08:05 (15), 04/12/2025 22:12 (1)
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