Bug 1039384 (CVE-2013-7038)

Summary:	CVE-2013-7038 libmicrohttpd: out-of-bounds read in MHD_http_unescape()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fweimer, jrusnack, pfrields, systemd-maint, tim, vpavlin
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Bug Depends On:	1034363, 1039385, 1039386, 1039387
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Description Murray McAllister 2013-12-09 01:44:13 UTC

An out-of-bounds memory read flaw was found in the MHD_http_unescape() function in libmicrohttpd. This could possibly lead to information disclosure or allow a remote attacker to cause an application using libmicrohttpd to crash. This issue has been resolved in version 0.9.32.

References:
https://gnunet.org/svn/libmicrohttpd/ChangeLog
http://secunia.com/advisories/55903/
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493450

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2013-12-09 01:49:29 UTC

Created libmicrohttpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1039385]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1039386]

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2013-12-09 02:06:21 UTC

CVE request: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/09/1