PT-2018-5225 · Bro · Bro

Frank Meier · Published 2018-01-02 · Updated 2018-01-16 · CVE-2017-1000458

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bro version 2.5.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly other exploitation due to an out of bounds write in the ContentLine analyzer.

Recommendations For Bro version 2.5.2, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-1000458

Affected Products

Bro

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000458 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000458 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000458 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000458 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000458 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/bro/bro/commit/6c0f101a62489b1c5927b4ed63b0e1d37db40282 · Note
• https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1856 · Note