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Debian DSA-5558-1 : netty - security update

2023-11-1800:00:00
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debian
dsa-5558-1
netty
security update
tls handshake
http/2 protocol
vulnerability
denial of service
cve-2023-34462
cve-2023-44487
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CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.838

Percentile

98.5%

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5558 advisory.

  • Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. The SniHandler can allocate up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake. When the handler or the channel does not have an idle timeout, it can be used to make a TCP server using the SniHandler to allocate 16MB of heap. The SniHandler class is a handler that waits for the TLS handshake to configure a SslHandler according to the indicated server name by the ClientHello record. For this matter it allocates a ByteBuf using the value defined in the ClientHello record. Normally the value of the packet should be smaller than the handshake packet but there are not checks done here and the way the code is written, it is possible to craft a packet that makes the SslClientHelloHandler. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.1.94.Final.
    (CVE-2023-34462)

  • The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
#
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory dsa-5558. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(185979);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-34462", "CVE-2023-44487");
  script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2023/10/31");
  script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2024-0004");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-5558-1 : netty - security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
dsa-5558 advisory.

  - Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable
    high performance protocol servers & clients. The `SniHandler` can allocate up to 16MB of heap for each
    channel during the TLS handshake. When the handler or the channel does not have an idle timeout, it can be
    used to make a TCP server using the `SniHandler` to allocate 16MB of heap. The `SniHandler` class is a
    handler that waits for the TLS handshake to configure a `SslHandler` according to the indicated server
    name by the `ClientHello` record. For this matter it allocates a `ByteBuf` using the value defined in the
    `ClientHello` record. Normally the value of the packet should be smaller than the handshake packet but
    there are not checks done here and the way the code is written, it is possible to craft a packet that
    makes the `SslClientHelloHandler`. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.1.94.Final.
    (CVE-2023-34462)

  - The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation
    can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038947");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/netty");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5558");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34462");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-44487");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/netty");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/netty");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the netty packages.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 1");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-44487");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/06/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/11/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/18");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnetty-java");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var debian_release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(debian_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
debian_release = chomp(debian_release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(11)\.[0-9]+|^(12)\.[0-9]+", string:debian_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 11.0 / 12.0', 'Debian ' + debian_release);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Debian', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'release': '11.0', 'prefix': 'libnetty-java', 'reference': '1:4.1.48-4+deb11u2'},
    {'release': '12.0', 'prefix': 'libnetty-java', 'reference': '1:4.1.48-7+deb12u1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var _release = NULL;
  var prefix = NULL;
  var reference = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['prefix'])) prefix = package_array['prefix'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (_release && prefix && reference) {
    if (deb_check(release:_release, prefix:prefix, reference:reference)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : deb_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libnetty-java');
}

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.838

Percentile

98.5%