CVE-2021-29507

NameCVE-2021-29507
DescriptionGENIVI Diagnostic Log and Trace (DLT) provides a log and trace interface. In versions of GENIVI DLT between 2.10.0 and 2.18.6, a configuration file containing the special characters could cause a vulnerable component to crash. All the applications which are using the configuration file could fail to generate their dlt logs in system. As of time of publication, no patch exists. As a workaround, one may check the integrity of information in configuration file manually.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dlt-daemon (PTS)buster2.18.0-1vulnerable
buster (security)2.18.0-1+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye2.18.6-1+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm2.18.8-6fixed
sid, trixie2.18.10-10fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dlt-daemonsource(unstable)2.18.8-1unimportant

Notes

https://github.com/GENIVI/dlt-daemon/security/advisories/GHSA-7cqp-2hqj-mh3f (useless boilerplate only)
https://github.com/GENIVI/dlt-daemon/commit/ad8a6ab070803f2b0e0fa177fd6638c10db2dde3 (v2.18.7)
No security impact, config files need to be trusted

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