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Amazon Linux AMI : expat (ALAS-2020-1364)

2020-05-1500:00:00
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Buffer overflow in the XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a large amount of compressed XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-1283 .
(CVE-2015-2716)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2020-1364.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(136625);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-2716");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2020-1364");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : expat (ALAS-2020-1364)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Buffer overflow in the XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0,
Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 allows
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a large amount
of compressed XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-1283 .
(CVE-2015-2716)");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2020-1364.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update expat' 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:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2015-2716");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/05/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:expat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:expat-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:expat-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  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:"expat-2.1.0-11.22.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"expat-debuginfo-2.1.0-11.22.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"expat-devel-2.1.0-11.22.amzn1")) 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, "expat / expat-debuginfo / expat-devel");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxexpatp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:expat
amazonlinuxexpat-debuginfop-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:expat-debuginfo
amazonlinuxexpat-develp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:expat-devel
amazonlinuxcpe:/o:amazon:linux