Bug 1211889 (CVE-2023-33461)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-33461: iniparser: NULL pointer dereference in iniparser_getboolean()
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Carlos López <carlos.lopez>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	andrea, antonio.teixeira, security-team, stoyan.manolov
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/368084/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-33461:5.5:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Carlos López 2023-06-01 08:41:57 UTC

CVE-2023-33461

iniparser v4.1 is vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in function
iniparser_getlongint which misses check NULL for function iniparser_getstring's
return.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-33461
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-33461
https://github.com/ndevilla/iniparser/issues/144

Comment 1 Carlos López 2023-06-01 08:46:19 UTC

Relevant for:
- SUSE:SLE-12:Update/iniparser
- SUSE:SLE-15-SP5:Update/iniparser
- openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP4/iniparser
- openSUSE:Factory/iniparser

Comment 3 Maintenance Automation 2023-06-28 16:30:17 UTC

SUSE-SU-2023:2692-1: An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1211889
CVE References: CVE-2023-33461
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (src): iniparser-3.1.0.git20140619_c5beb80a-3.3.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (src): iniparser-3.1.0.git20140619_c5beb80a-3.3.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (src): iniparser-3.1.0.git20140619_c5beb80a-3.3.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (src): iniparser-3.1.0.git20140619_c5beb80a-3.3.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 4 Maintenance Automation 2023-06-30 16:30:17 UTC

SUSE-SU-2023:2749-1: An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1211889
CVE References: CVE-2023-33461
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 15.5 (src): iniparser-4.1-150500.4.3.1
Server Applications Module 15-SP5 (src): iniparser-4.1-150500.4.3.1

NOTE: This line indicates an update has been released for the listed product(s). At times this might be only a partial fix. If you have questions please reach out to maintenance coordination.

Comment 5 OBSbugzilla Bot 2023-07-13 16:35:03 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1211889) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1098556 Backports:SLE-15-SP4 / iniparser

Comment 6 Marcus Meissner 2023-07-17 19:05:34 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2023:0183-1: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.\n\nCategory: security (moderate)\nBug References: 1211889\nCVE References: CVE-2023-33461\nJIRA References: \nSources used:\nopenSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (src):    iniparser-4.1-bp154.2.3.1\n\n

Comment 7 Antonio Teixeira 2023-07-21 12:09:14 UTC

Fixed in affected codestreams. Closing.

Comment 11 Carlos López 2024-02-22 14:34:22 UTC

Done, closing.