Amazon Linux AMI : python35 (ALAS-2018-1101)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2018-1101.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(118805);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/04/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-14647");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2018-1101");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : python35 (ALAS-2018-1101)");
  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:
"Python's elementtree C accelerator failed to initialise Expat's hash
salt during initialization. This could make it easy to conduct denial
of service attacks against Expat by contructing an XML document that
would cause pathological hash collisions in Expat's internal data
structures, consuming large amounts CPU and RAM.(CVE-2018-14647)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2018-1101.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution",
    value:"Run 'yum update python35' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python35");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python35-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python35-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python35-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python35-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:python35-tools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/09/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/11/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2021 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 != "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:"python35-3.5.6-1.13.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"python35-debuginfo-3.5.6-1.13.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"python35-devel-3.5.6-1.13.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"python35-libs-3.5.6-1.13.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"python35-test-3.5.6-1.13.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"python35-tools-3.5.6-1.13.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, "python35 / python35-debuginfo / python35-devel / python35-libs / etc");
}