Unauthenticated out of bounds heap write in bmcweb
Vulnerability Description
A vulnerability in bmcweb of OpenBMC Project allows user to cause denial of service. When fuzzing the multipart_parser code using AFL++ with address sanitizer enabled to find smallest memory corruptions possible. It detected problem in how multipart_parser handles unclosed http headers. If long enough http header is passed in the multipart form without colon there is one byte overwrite on heap. It can be conducted multiple times in a loop to cause DoS.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Finder: Jakub Rozanski, Intel Corporation
- Remediation: Krzysztof Grobelny, Intel Corporation
References
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