unixODBC on 64-bit out-of-range pointer offset

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in unixODBC on 64-bit and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to use of out-of-range pointer offset. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-1013. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in unixODBC on 64-bit (the affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use of out-of-range pointer offset vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-823. The product performs pointer arithmetic on a valid pointer, but it uses an offset that can point outside of the intended range of valid memory locations for the resulting pointer. Impacted is confidentiality, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An out-of-bounds stack write flaw was found in unixODBC on 64-bit architectures where the caller has 4 bytes and callee writes 8 bytes. This issue may go unnoticed on little-endian architectures, while big-endian architectures can be broken.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-1013 since 01/29/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 233315 (Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: unixODBC (CVE-2024-1013)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (233315). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Use of out-of-range pointer offset
CWE: CWE-823
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 233315
Nessus Name: Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: unixODBC (CVE-2024-1013)

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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: github.com

Timelineinfo

01/29/2024 🔍
03/18/2024 +49 days 🔍
03/18/2024 +0 days 🔍
03/26/2025 +373 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-1013 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-1013
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-257141

Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2024 14:18
Updated: 03/26/2025 06:26
Changes: 03/18/2024 14:18 (62), 03/24/2025 16:22 (13), 03/25/2025 19:30 (2), 03/26/2025 06:26 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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