CVE-2021-44538

Name
CVE-2021-44538
Description
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.
NVD Severity
high
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/13/disclosure-buffer-overflow-in-libolm-and-matrix-js-sdk
MISC https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/-/tags
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5034
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00001.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:matrix:element:*:*:*:*:desktop:*:*:* element >= None < 1.9.7
cpe:2.3:a:matrix:javascript_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* javascript_sdk >= 2.4.2 < 15.2.1
cpe:2.3:a:matrix:olm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* olm >= 3.1.4 < 3.2.8

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
riot-web 3.15-community 1.9.7-r0 Galen Abell <galen@galenabell.com> fixed
olm 3.15-community 3.2.7-r1 Bart Ribbers <bribbers@disroot.org> fixed