The ntpq and ntpdc command-line utilities that are part of ntp package are vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow via crafted hostname.
Applications using these vulnerable utilities with an untrusted input may be potentially exploited, resulting in a crash or arbitrary code execution under privileges of that application.(CVE-2018-12327)
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1367.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(131236);
script_version("1.2");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/09");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-12327");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1367");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : ntp (ALAS-2019-1367)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The ntpq and ntpdc command-line utilities that are part of ntp package
are vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow via crafted hostname.
Applications using these vulnerable utilities with an untrusted input
may be potentially exploited, resulting in a crash or arbitrary code
execution under privileges of that application.(CVE-2018-12327)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2019-1367.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Run 'yum update ntp' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ntp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ntp-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ntp-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ntp-perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ntpdate");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sntp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/06/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "2")
{
if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}
if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"ntp-4.2.6p5-29.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"ntp-debuginfo-4.2.6p5-29.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-29.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-29.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"ntpdate-4.2.6p5-29.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sntp-4.2.6p5-29.amzn2.0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ntp / ntp-debuginfo / ntp-doc / ntp-perl / ntpdate / sntp");
}