SB2021041515 - Multiple vulnerabilities in DNS Module of Siemens Nucleus Products 



SB2021041515 - Multiple vulnerabilities in DNS Module of Siemens Nucleus Products

Published: April 15, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2021041515
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Improper Null Termination (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27736)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to the DNS domain name label parsing functionality does not properly validate the null-terminated name in DNS-responses. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service condition or leak the read memory.


2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27737)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the DNS response parsing functionality. A remote attacker can trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.


3) Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27738)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the DNS domain name record decompression functionality does not properly validate the pointer offset values. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service condition on the target system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.