Ilja Van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in ppp, the Point-to-Point Protocol daemon. When receiving an EAP Request message in client mode, an attacker was able to overflow the rhostname array by providing a very long name. This issue is also mitigated by Debian’s hardening build flags.
For Debian 8 ‘Jessie’, this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6-3.1+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ppp 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-2097-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(133561);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/27");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8597");
script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2020-0025");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2097-1 : ppp security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Ilja Van Sprundel discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in ppp,
the Point-to-Point Protocol daemon. When receiving an EAP Request
message in client mode, an attacker was able to overflow the rhostname
array by providing a very long name. This issue is also mitigated by
Debian's hardening build flags.
For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version
2.4.6-3.1+deb8u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ppp 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/2020/02/msg00005.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/ppp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected ppp, ppp-dev, and ppp-udeb 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-2020-8597");
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:"2020/02/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-udeb");
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) 2020-2024 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:"ppp", reference:"2.4.6-3.1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"ppp-dev", reference:"2.4.6-3.1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"ppp-udeb", reference:"2.4.6-3.1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | ppp | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp |
debian | debian_linux | ppp-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-dev |
debian | debian_linux | ppp-udeb | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ppp-udeb |
debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0 |