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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-52811

Change History

New CVE Received from GitHub, Inc. 11/25/2024 2:15:11 PM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
The ngtcp2 project is an effort to implement IETF QUIC protocol in C. In affected versions acks are not validated before being written to the qlog leading to a buffer overflow. In `ngtcp2_conn::conn_recv_pkt` for an ACK, there was new logic that got added to skip `conn_recv_ack` if an ack has already been processed in the payload. However, this causes us to also skip `ngtcp2_pkt_validate_ack`. The ack which was skipped still got written to qlog. The bug occurs in `ngtcp2_qlog::write_ack_frame`. It is now possible to reach this code with an invalid ack, suppose `largest_ack=0` and `first_ack_range=15`. Subtracting `largest_ack - first_ack_range` will lead to an integer underflow which is 20 chars long. However, the ngtcp2 qlog code assumes the number written is a signed integer and only accounts for 19 characters of overhead (see `NGTCP2_QLOG_ACK_FRAME_RANGE_OVERHEAD`). Therefore, we overwrite the buffer causing a heap overflow. This is high priority and could potentially impact many users if they enable qlog. qlog is disabled by default. Due to its overhead, it is most likely used for debugging purpose, but the actual use is unknown. ngtcp2 v1.9.1 fixes the bug and users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should not turn on qlog.
Added CVSS V3.1

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

								
							
							
						
CWE-670
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/commit/44b662bd139c23fee1703bf256c13349e2e624a1
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/commit/e550c1a414318d0f3f01fca1a621ae0b0428ca15
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://github.com/ngtcp2/ngtcp2/security/advisories/GHSA-4gmv-gf46-r4g5