CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-14382

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-09-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

A vulnerability was found in upstream release cryptsetup-2.2.0 where, there's a bug in LUKS2 format validation code, that is effectively invoked on every device/image presenting itself as LUKS2 container. The bug is in segments validation code in file 'lib/luks2/luks2_json_metadata.c' in function hdr_validate_segments(struct crypt_device *cd, json_object *hdr_jobj) where the code does not check for possible overflow on memory allocation used for intervals array (see statement "intervals = malloc(first_backup * sizeof(*intervals));"). Due to the bug, library can be *tricked* to expect such allocation was successful but for far less memory then originally expected. Later it may read data FROM image crafted by an attacker and actually write such data BEYOND allocated memory.

Affected configurations

• cryptsetup project cryptsetup 2.2.0 • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 20.04 • fedoraproject fedora 31 • fedoraproject fedora 33

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References