Bug#1059259: lwip: CVE-2023-49287

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hello,

Moritz Mühlenhoff, le ven. 22 déc. 2023 10:03:28 +0100, a ecrit:
> CVE-2023-49287[0]:
> | TinyDir is a lightweight C directory and file reader. Buffer
> | overflows in the `tinydir_file_open()` function. This vulnerability
> | has been patched in version 1.2.6.
> 
> https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/security/advisories/GHSA-jf5r-wgf4-qhxf
> https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/commit/8124807260735a837226fa151493536591f6715d
> https://github.com/hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2023-04-tinydir.txt
> 
> falcosecurity-libs embeds a copy of tinydir, if it's not used to
> open files from potentially untrusted paths, feel free to downgrade.

The tinydir_file_open function is not used at all indeed.
(and we don't ship the only lwip app that includes tinydir.h anyway)

Samuel

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Bug #1059259 [src:lwip] lwip: CVE-2023-49287
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Bug#1059259: lwip: CVE-2023-49287

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: lwip
X-Debbugs-CC: t...@security.debian.org
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for lwip.

CVE-2023-49287[0]:
| TinyDir is a lightweight C directory and file reader. Buffer
| overflows in the `tinydir_file_open()` function. This vulnerability
| has been patched in version 1.2.6.

https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/security/advisories/GHSA-jf5r-wgf4-qhxf
https://github.com/cxong/tinydir/commit/8124807260735a837226fa151493536591f6715d
https://github.com/hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2023-04-tinydir.txt

falcosecurity-libs embeds a copy of tinydir, if it's not used to
open files from potentially untrusted paths, feel free to downgrade.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-49287
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49287

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.