PT-2018-8858 · Remctl · Remctl

Santosh Ananthakrishnan · Published 2018-04-01 · Updated 2018-05-21 · CVE-2018-0493

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions remctl versions prior to 3.14

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free error in remctld, which can occur when an attacker is authorized to execute a command that uses the sudo option. This error can lead to a daemon crash, memory corruption, or arbitrary command execution.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.14, update to version 3.14 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-0493

DSA-4159-1

Affected Products

Remctl

References · 15

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4159-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0493 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4159-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0493 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/security/2018-04-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-0493 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/remctl · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.debian.org/src:remctl · Note
• https://git.eyrie.org/?p=kerberos/remctl.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=86c7e44090c988112a37589d2c7a94029eb5e641 · Note