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Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2012-31)

🗓️ 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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 nessus
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The Amazon Linux AMI is missing a security update for dhcp, which could allow remote attackers to crash dhcpd (CVE-2011-4539)

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#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2012-31.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(69638);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:34");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4539");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2012-31");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2011:1819");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : dhcp (ALAS-2012-31)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A denial of service flaw was found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled
DHCP request packets when regular expression matching was used in
'/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf'. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash
dhcpd. (CVE-2011-4539)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2012-31.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update dhcp' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dhclient");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dhcp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dhcp-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dhcp-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:dhcp-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/01/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/09/04");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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 != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"dhclient-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"dhcp-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"dhcp-common-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"dhcp-debuginfo-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"dhcp-devel-4.1.1-25.P1.14.amzn1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "dhclient / dhcp / dhcp-common / dhcp-debuginfo / dhcp-devel");
}

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18 Apr 2018 15:09Current
6.3Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.3
CVSS 25
EPSS0.32265
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