Critical severity · published Nov 8, 2018
CVE-2018-19115
keepalived before 2.0.7 has a heap-based buffer overflow when parsing HTTP status codes resulting in DoS or possibly unspecified other impact, because extract_status_code in…
9.8
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
keepalived before 2.0.7 has a heap-based buffer overflow when parsing HTTP status codes resulting in DoS or possibly unspecified other impact, because extract_status_code in lib/html.c has no validation of the status code and instead writes an unlimited amount of data to the heap.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
7.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Redhat
7.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Tus · Redhat
7.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
KE
Keepalived · Keepalived
before 2.0.7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19115
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19115
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0022
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1792
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1945
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015141
Patch
https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/pull/961
Patch
https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/pull/961/commits/f28015671a4b04785859d1b4b1327b367b6a10e9
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