A design flaw was found in the libgcrypt PRNG (Pseudo-Random Number Generator). An attacker who can obtain the first 580 bytes of the PRNG output can trivially predict the following 20 bytes.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2016-744.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(93536);
script_version("2.3");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:36");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6313");
script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2016-744");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : libgcrypt / gnupg (ALAS-2016-744)");
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 design flaw was found in the libgcrypt PRNG (Pseudo-Random Number
Generator). An attacker who can obtain the first 580 bytes of the PRNG
output can trivially predict the following 20 bytes."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-744.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Run 'yum update libgcrypt' to update your system.
Run 'yum update gnupg' to update your system."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgcrypt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgcrypt-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgcrypt-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/09/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/09/16");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 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:"gnupg-1.4.19-1.28.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"gnupg-debuginfo-1.4.19-1.28.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libgcrypt-1.5.3-12.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libgcrypt-debuginfo-1.5.3-12.19.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libgcrypt-devel-1.5.3-12.19.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, "gnupg / gnupg-debuginfo / libgcrypt / libgcrypt-debuginfo / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
amazon | linux | gnupg | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg |
amazon | linux | gnupg-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | libgcrypt | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgcrypt |
amazon | linux | libgcrypt-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgcrypt-debuginfo |
amazon | linux | libgcrypt-devel | p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libgcrypt-devel |
amazon | linux | cpe:/o:amazon:linux |