Bug 1899855 (CVE-2020-17437) - CVE-2020-17437 Open-iSCSI: invalid handing of the TCP urgent data pointer
Summary: CVE-2020-17437 Open-iSCSI: invalid handing of the TCP urgent data pointer
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-17437
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1899973 1899978 1909061 1910569
Blocks: 1881303
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Reported: 2020-11-20 09:03 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2024-03-25 17:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-29 06:59:30 UTC
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Description Cedric Buissart 2020-11-20 09:03:07 UTC 
A missing boundary check was found in uIP (Micro IP) TCP packet processing

When handling TCP Urgent data, there are no sanity checks for the value of the Urgent data pointer, allowing attackers to corrupt memory by supplying arbitrary Urgent data pointer offsets within TCP packets.

Listed potential impact: DoS
Comment 2 Cedric Buissart 2020-12-10 10:32:45 UTC 
External References:

https://www.forescout.com/company/resources/amnesia33-how-tcp-ip-stacks-breed-critical-vulnerabilities-in-iot-ot-and-it-devices/
Comment 4 Cedric Buissart 2020-12-10 16:27:16 UTC 
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, uIP is used in the iscsiuio command, provided by iscsi-initiator-utils.

In RHEL, the command is used for connecting to an iSCSI NAS. It is expected that the attacker is a Person in the Middle, between the NAS and the RHEL machine.
As a consequence, this issue is currently rated Low.
Comment 6 Cedric Buissart 2020-12-18 09:13:45 UTC 
Created iscsi-initiator-utils tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1909061]
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