CVE-2023-4264
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-4264 is a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the Zephyr Bluetooth subsystem affecting Zephyr versions <= 3.4.0. The vulnerability was disclosed on September 26, 2023, and involves multiple potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in various components of the Bluetooth subsystem (Zephyr Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability encompasses multiple buffer overflow scenarios in different parts of the Zephyr Bluetooth subsystem, including static, stack-based, and heap-based buffer overflows. The affected components include audio subsystem files (tbs.c, mcc.c, mediacontroller.c), host connection handling (conn.c), and mesh networking components (beacon.c, provdevice.c, provisioner.c, rpr.c). The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High) with vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (Zephyr Advisory).

Impact

If the unchecked inputs are attacker-controlled and cross a security boundary, the impact of these buffer overflow vulnerabilities could range from denial of service to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability affects confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system, each rated as Low in the CVSS scoring (Zephyr Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the main branch through multiple pull requests: #58834, #60465, and #61845. Users should update to the patched versions when available (Zephyr Advisory).

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