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CentOS 6 : glibc (CESA-2017:0680)

2017-03-2700:00:00
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An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

Security Fix(es) :

  • A stack overflow vulnerability was found in nan* functions that could cause applications, which process long strings with the nan function, to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2014-9761)

  • It was found that out-of-range time values passed to the strftime() function could result in an out-of-bounds memory access. This could lead to application crash or, potentially, information disclosure.
    (CVE-2015-8776)

  • An integer overflow vulnerability was found in hcreate() and hcreate_r() functions which could result in an out-of-bounds memory access. This could lead to application crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-8778)

  • A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the catopen() function. An excessively long string passed to the function could cause it to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2015-8779)

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

#%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-2017:0680 and 
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2017:0680 respectively.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(97958);
  script_version("3.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-9761", "CVE-2015-8776", "CVE-2015-8778", "CVE-2015-8779");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2017:0680");

  script_name(english:"CentOS 6 : glibc (CESA-2017:0680)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX
thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the
name service cache daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the
system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function
correctly.

Security Fix(es) :

* A stack overflow vulnerability was found in nan* functions that
could cause applications, which process long strings with the nan
function, to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-9761)

* It was found that out-of-range time values passed to the strftime()
function could result in an out-of-bounds memory access. This could
lead to application crash or, potentially, information disclosure.
(CVE-2015-8776)

* An integer overflow vulnerability was found in hcreate() and
hcreate_r() functions which could result in an out-of-bounds memory
access. This could lead to application crash or, potentially,
arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-8778)

* A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the
catopen() function. An excessively long string passed to the function
could cause it to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2015-8779)

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
Technical Notes linked from the References section."
  );
  # http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2017-March/003776.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?bfa1174d"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected glibc packages. Note that the updated packages
may not be immediately available from the package repository and its
mirrors.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-headers");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-static");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nscd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:6");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/27");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
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 && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"glibc-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"glibc-common-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"glibc-devel-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"glibc-headers-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"glibc-static-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"glibc-utils-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"nscd-2.12-1.209.el6")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
centoscentosglibcp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc
centoscentosglibc-commonp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-common
centoscentosglibc-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-devel
centoscentosglibc-headersp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-headers
centoscentosglibc-staticp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-static
centoscentosglibc-utilsp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glibc-utils
centoscentosnscdp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nscd
centoscentos6cpe:/o:centos:centos:6