Cypress Wireless IoT Bluetooth Stack eir_handleRx out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Cypress Wireless IoT. This vulnerability affects the function eir_handleRx of the component Bluetooth Stack. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-11516. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Cypress Wireless IoT (version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function eir_handleRx of the component Bluetooth Stack. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in the Bluetooth component of the Cypress (formerly owned by Broadcom) Wireless IoT codebase. Extended Inquiry Responses (EIRs) are improperly handled, which causes a heap-based buffer overflow during device inquiry. This overflow can be used to overwrite existing functions with arbitrary code. The Reserved for Future Use (RFU) bits are not discarded by eir_handleRx(), and are included in an EIR's length. Therefore, one can exceed the expected 240 bytes, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow in eir_getReceivedEIR() called by bthci_event_SendInquiryResultEvent(). In order to exploit this bug, an attacker must repeatedly connect to the victim's device in a short amount of time from different source addresses. This will cause the victim's Bluetooth stack to resolve the device names and therefore allocate buffers with attacker-controlled data. Due to the heap corruption, the name will be eventually written to an attacker-controlled location, leading to a write-what-where condition.

The weakness was disclosed 02/05/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-11516 since 04/25/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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