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Description

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP snmp allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by sending an SNMP message containing a BER INTEGER whose length field is arbitrarily large.

snmp_pdus:dec_integer_notag/1 defaults its size limit to infinity, and do_dec_integer_notag/2 then accumulates the value across every declared byte with a recursive shift and bitwise or. Work grows superlinearly in the declared length because each operation acts on a progressively larger bignum. The size-limited variant dec_integer_notag/2 exists but is reached from only one call site, dec_snmp_version/1, which bounds the version field to ten bytes; the request identifier, error status and index, generic and specific trap fields, engine boots and time, and every varbind value decoded by dec_value/1 all use the unbounded form. The decode runs before the PDU is processed, so no valid request is required beyond what the deployment demands to accept the message at all.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to snmp from 4.25.1 before 5.18.2.1, from 5.19 before 5.20.2.2, and from 5.20.3 before 5.20.5. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to snmp before 4.25.1, is affected is unknown.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-1284 · Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-231 · Oversized Serialized Data Payloads MITRE ↗

Affected — Erlang

< 17.0 status unknown
17.0 < 27.3.4.17 affected
maint-28 28.0 < 28.5.0.6 affected
maint-29 29.0 < 29.0.6 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules snmp_pdus
source files lib/snmp/src/misc/snmp_pdus.erl
routines snmp_pdus:dec_integer_notag/1 · snmp_pdus:do_dec_integer_notag/2 · snmp_pdus:dec_value/1

Affected — pkg:otp/snmp Repository ↗

< 4.25.1 status unknown
4.25.1 < 5.18.2.1 affected
5.19 < 5.20.2.2 affected
5.20.3 < 5.20.5 affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules snmp_pdus
source files src/misc/snmp_pdus.erl
routines snmp_pdus:dec_integer_notag/1 · snmp_pdus:do_dec_integer_notag/2 · snmp_pdus:dec_value/1

Affected — GitHub / erlang/otp Repository ↗

84adefa and up affected
aba0fe8 not affected
e3be1cf not affected
every other version: unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules snmp_pdus
source files lib/snmp/src/misc/snmp_pdus.erl
routines snmp_pdus:dec_integer_notag/1 · snmp_pdus:do_dec_integer_notag/2 · snmp_pdus:dec_value/1

References

Credits

Eric Meadows-Jönsson Finder
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Finder
Peter Ullrich Finder
José Valim Finder
Konrad Pietrzak / Ericsson Remediation developer

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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