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Debian DLA-1978-1 : python-ecdsa security update

2019-10-3100:00:00
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It was discovered that python-ecdsa, a cryptographic signature library for Python, did not correctly verify DER encoded signatures. Malformed signatures could lead to unexpected exceptions and in some cases did not raise any exception.

For Debian 8 ‘Jessie’, these problems have been fixed in version 0.11-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-ecdsa packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1978-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(130407);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-14853", "CVE-2019-14859");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1978-1 : python-ecdsa security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that python-ecdsa, a cryptographic signature library
for Python, did not correctly verify DER encoded signatures. Malformed
signatures could lead to unexpected exceptions and in some cases did
not raise any exception.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version
0.11-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-ecdsa packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00041.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/python-ecdsa");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected python-ecdsa, and python3-ecdsa packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
  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:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-14859");

  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:"2019/11/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/10/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/10/31");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ecdsa");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-ecdsa");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian 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/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python-ecdsa", reference:"0.11-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"python3-ecdsa", reference:"0.11-1+deb8u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxpython-ecdsap-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-ecdsa
debiandebian_linuxpython3-ecdsap-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-ecdsa
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0