An updated star package that fixes a path traversal flaw is now available.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
Star is a tar-like archiver. It saves multiple files into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. Star includes multi-volume support, automatic archive format detection and ACL support.
A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause star to write to arbitrary files to which the user running star had write access. (CVE-2007-4134)
Red Hat would like to thank Robert Buchholz for reporting this issue.
As well, this update adds the command line argument ‘-…’ to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 version of star. This allows star to extract files containing ‘/…/’ in their pathname.
Users of star should upgrade to this updated package, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0873 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0873 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(25972);
script_version("1.19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4134");
script_bugtraq_id(25417);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2007:0873");
script_name(english:"CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : star (CESA-2007:0873)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An updated star package that fixes a path traversal flaw is now
available.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
Star is a tar-like archiver. It saves multiple files into a single
tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the
archive. Star includes multi-volume support, automatic archive format
detection and ACL support.
A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way star extracted
archives. A malicious user could create a tar archive that would cause
star to write to arbitrary files to which the user running star had
write access. (CVE-2007-4134)
Red Hat would like to thank Robert Buchholz for reporting this issue.
As well, this update adds the command line argument '-..' to the Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 3 version of star. This allows star to extract
files containing '/../' in their pathname.
Users of star should upgrade to this updated package, which contain
backported patches to correct these issues."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014162.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a266a5b7"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014163.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e1aa6292"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014167.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7b587b06"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014169.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?cfe36240"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014174.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?02e483ca"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014175.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?435b5817"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014180.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?3e996603"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/014181.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?90a4320d"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected star package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(22);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:star");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2007/08/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/09/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/09/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/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/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(3|4|5)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 3.x / 4.x / 5.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && "ia64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-3", reference:"star-1.5a08-5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-4", reference:"star-1.5a25-8")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"star-1.5a75-2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "star");
}