CVE-2021-44538
Publication date 14 December 2021
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
The olm_session_describe function in Matrix libolm before 3.2.7 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. The Olm session object represents a cryptographic channel between two parties. Therefore, its state is partially controllable by the remote party of the channel. Attackers can construct a crafted sequence of messages to manipulate the state of the receiver's session in such a way that, for some buffer sizes, a buffer overflow happens on a call to olm_session_describe. Furthermore, safe buffer sizes were undocumented. The overflow content is partially controllable by the attacker and limited to ASCII spaces and digits. The known affected products are Element Web And SchildiChat Web.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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node-matrix-js-sdk | 24.10 oracular |
Needs evaluation
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24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
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20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial | Ignored end of standard support | |
14.04 LTS trusty | Ignored end of standard support | |
olm | 24.10 oracular |
Needs evaluation
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24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
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20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
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18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial | Ignored end of standard support | |
14.04 LTS trusty | Ignored end of standard support | |
thunderbird | 24.10 oracular |
Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu1
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24.04 LTS noble |
Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu1
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu1
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20.04 LTS focal |
Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
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18.04 LTS bionic |
Fixed 1:91.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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16.04 LTS xenial | Ignored end of standard support | |
14.04 LTS trusty | Ignored end of standard support |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
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Base score | 9.8 · Critical |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity impact | High |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-5246-1
- Thunderbird vulnerabilities
- 21 January 2022
- USN-5248-1
- Thunderbird vulnerabilities
- 21 January 2022