Amazon Linux AMI c-ares denial of service vulnerability patc
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2023-1770.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(177906);
script_version("1.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/07/03");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-32067");
script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : c-ares (ALAS-2023-1770)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of c-ares installed on the remote host is prior to 1.17.2-1.9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability
as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1770 advisory.
- c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. c-ares is vulnerable to denial of service. If a target
resolver sends a query, the attacker forges a malformed UDP packet with a length of 0 and returns them to
the target resolver. The target resolver erroneously interprets the 0 length as a graceful shutdown of the
connection. This issue has been patched in version 1.19.1. (CVE-2023-32067)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1770.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-32067.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update c-ares' to update your system.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-32067");
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:"2023/05/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/06/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/07/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:c-ares");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:c-ares-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:c-ares-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) 2023 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("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_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);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'c-ares-1.17.2-1.9.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'c-ares-1.17.2-1.9.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'c-ares-debuginfo-1.17.2-1.9.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'c-ares-debuginfo-1.17.2-1.9.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.17.2-1.9.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.17.2-1.9.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "c-ares / c-ares-debuginfo / c-ares-devel");
}
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