Arjun Shankar of Red Hat discovered that gethostbyname_r and related functions compute the size of an input buffer incorrectly if the passed-in buffer is misaligned. This results in a buffer overflow.
For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.11.3-4+deb6u6.
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-230-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(83865);
script_version("2.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-1781");
script_bugtraq_id(74255);
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-230-1 : eglibc security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Arjun Shankar of Red Hat discovered that gethostbyname_r and related
functions compute the size of an input buffer incorrectly if the
passed-in buffer is misaligned. This results in a buffer overflow.
For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.11.3-4+deb6u6.
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/2015/05/msg00013.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/eglibc"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
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_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eglibc-source");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:glibc-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-dev-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-amd64");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-amd64");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-i386");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-i386");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-i686");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-pic");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-prof");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-udeb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-xen");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-dns-udeb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-files-udeb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:locales");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:locales-all");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:nscd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/05/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/05/28");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
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:"6.0", prefix:"eglibc-source", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"glibc-doc", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc-bin", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc-dev-bin", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-amd64", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-dbg", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-dev", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-dev-amd64", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-dev-i386", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-i386", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-i686", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-pic", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-prof", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-udeb", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libc6-xen", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libnss-dns-udeb", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libnss-files-udeb", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"locales", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"locales-all", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"nscd", reference:"2.11.3-4+deb6u6")) 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");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | eglibc-source | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:eglibc-source |
debian | debian_linux | glibc-doc | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:glibc-doc |
debian | debian_linux | libc-bin | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-bin |
debian | debian_linux | libc-dev-bin | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc-dev-bin |
debian | debian_linux | libc6 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6 |
debian | debian_linux | libc6-amd64 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-amd64 |
debian | debian_linux | libc6-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | libc6-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libc6-dev-amd64 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-amd64 |
debian | debian_linux | libc6-dev-i386 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libc6-dev-i386 |