ConnMan Project Connection Manager Daemon up to 1.34 DNS Packet memory corruption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ConnMan Project Connection Manager Daemon up to 1.34. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component DNS Packet Handler. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-5716. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to implement restrictive firewalling.

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A vulnerability has been found in ConnMan Project Connection Manager Daemon up to 1.34 (Project Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component DNS Packet Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer overflow in ConnMan Project connection manager daemon version 1.34 and earlier allows a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service and remote code execution via malformed DNS packets.

The weakness was released 09/05/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at 01.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-5716 since 02/01/2017. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 119321 (GLSA-201812-02 : ConnMan: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Proper firewalling of is able to address this issue. A possible mitigation has been published 2 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (119321). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Project Management Software

Vendor

• ConnMan Project

Name

• Connection Manager Daemon

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34

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