CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-12611 — An issue was discovered in Bitdefender BOX firmware versions before 2.1.37.37-34 that affects the general reliability of the product

Medium CVSS 4.9

An issue was discovered in Bitdefender BOX firmware versions before 2.1.37.37-34 that affects the general reliability of the product. Specially crafted packets sent to the miniupnpd implementation in result in the device allocating memory without freeing it later. This behavior can cause the miniupnpd component to crash or to trigger a device reboot.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.9 (2.0)
Published
2019-10-17
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-770

Affected products

  • bitdefender / box_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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