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CentOS 6 : dovecot (CESA-2019:2885)

2019-10-0100:00:00
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An update for dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3 server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.

Security Fix(es) :

  • dovecot: improper NULL byte handling in IMAP and ManageSieve protocol parsers leads to out of bounds writes (CVE-2019-11500)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:2885 and 
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2019:2885 respectively.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(129472);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/22");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-11500");
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2019:2885");

  script_name(english:"CentOS 6 : dovecot (CESA-2019:2885)");

  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 dovecot is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. 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.

Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux and other UNIX-like systems,
written primarily with security in mind. It also contains a small POP3
server, and supports e-mail in either the maildir or mbox format. The
SQL drivers and authentication plug-ins are provided as subpackages.

Security Fix(es) :

* dovecot: improper NULL byte handling in IMAP and ManageSieve
protocol parsers leads to out of bounds writes (CVE-2019-11500)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a
CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to
the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.");
  # https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023453.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?fa397050");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected dovecot packages.");
  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:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  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_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-11500");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/08/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/09/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/10/01");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-mysql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-pgsql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-pigeonhole");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/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:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 6.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 && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"dovecot-2.0.9-22.el6_10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"dovecot-devel-2.0.9-22.el6_10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"dovecot-mysql-2.0.9-22.el6_10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"dovecot-pgsql-2.0.9-22.el6_10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"dovecot-pigeonhole-2.0.9-22.el6_10.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    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, "dovecot / dovecot-devel / dovecot-mysql / dovecot-pgsql / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
centoscentosdovecotp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot
centoscentosdovecot-develp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-devel
centoscentosdovecot-mysqlp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-mysql
centoscentosdovecot-pgsqlp-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-pgsql
centoscentosdovecot-pigeonholep-cpe:/a:centos:centos:dovecot-pigeonhole
centoscentos6cpe:/o:centos:centos:6