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ESB-2019.1897
GNU Binutils vulnerability CVE-2019-9070
27 May 2019
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: F5 Products
Publisher: F5 Networks
Operating System: Network Appliance
Impact/Access: Modify Arbitrary Files -- Remote with User Interaction
Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Access Confidential Data -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Mitigation
CVE Names: CVE-2019-9070
Original Bulletin:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13534168
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K13534168:GNU Binutils vulnerability CVE-2019-9070
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: 25 May, 2019
Security Advisory Description
An issue was discovered in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.32.
It is a heap-based buffer over-read in d_expression_1 in cp-demangle.c after
many recursive calls. (CVE-2019-9070)
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to disclosure of
sensitive information, addition or modification of data, or denial-of-service
(DoS).
Security Advisory Status
F5 Product Development has assigned ID 784113 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability.
To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this
vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your
release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected
by the vulnerability, and for information about releases or hotfixes that
address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information
about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security
Advisory versioning.
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable|
|Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component |
| | |be |in | |1 |or feature|
| | |vulnerable| | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |15.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, |14.x |14.0.0 |14.1.0 | | | |
|AFM, Analytics, +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|APM, ASM, DNS, Edge|13.x |13.1.0 - |None | | |GNU |
|Gateway, FPS, GTM, | |13.1.1 | |Medium |5.9 |Binutils |
|Link Controller, +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|PEM, |12.x |12.1.0 - |None | | | |
|WebAccelerator) | |12.1.4 | | | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |11.x |11.5.2 - |None | | | |
| | |11.6.4 | | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|Enterprise Manager |3.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |6.x |None |Not | | | |
|BIG-IQ Centralized | | |applicable|Not | | |
|Management +------+----------+----------+vulnerable|None |None |
| |5.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|F5 iWorkflow |2.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| | |5.0.0 - |Not | | |GNU |
|Traffix SDC |5.x |5.1.0 |applicable|Medium |5.9 |Binutils |
| | |None | | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is
possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge.
Security Advisory Recommended Actions
If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable
column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed
in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version
than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version,
then no upgrade candidate currently exists.
Mitigation
To mitigate this vulnerability, you should permit management access to F5
products only over a secure network and restrict command line access for
affected systems to trusted users. For more information, refer to K13309:
Restricting access to the Configuration utility by source IP address (11.x -
13.x) and K13092: Overview of securing access to the BIG-IP system.
Supplemental Information
o K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning
o K41942608: Overview of Security Advisory articles
o K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy
o K4918: Overview of the F5 critical issue hotfix policy
o K167: Downloading software and firmware from F5
o K9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products
o K9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents
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