CVE-2023-28508 Heap corruption in UniRPC service
Heap corruption in UniRPC service allows attackers to crash the forked process, causing denial of service in Rocket UniData and UniVerse servers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-28508?
CVE-2023-28508 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Rocket Software UniData, published on 29 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Rocket Software UniData versions prior to 8.2.4 build 3003 and UniVerse versions prior to 11.3.5 build 1001 or 12.2.1 build 2002 suffer from a heap-based overflow vulnerability, where certain input can corrupt the heap and crash the forked process.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28508?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Rocketsoftware Unidata, Rocketsoftware Universe.
How do I fix CVE-2023-28508?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28508 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-28508 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-28508 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Rocket Software UniData
- CVE-2023-28501 Heap buffer overflow in unirpcd
- CVE-2023-28502 Stack buffer overflow in UniRPC's udadmin_server service
- CVE-2023-28503 Authentication bypass in UniRPC's udadmin service
- CVE-2023-28504 Stack buffer overflow in UniRPC library function
- CVE-2023-28507 Memory exhaustion in LZ4 decompression in UniRPC daemon
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f9v3-rvrm-52r5.