The remote Debian 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2698 advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%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-2698. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(151264);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/12/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8244");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2698-1 : node-bl - LTS security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Debian 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2698
advisory.
- A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an
attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become
negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via
regular .slice() calls. (CVE-2020-8244)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/node-bl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2698");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8244");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/node-bl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the node-bl packages.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.2-1+deb9u1.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/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:L/I:N/A:L");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-8244");
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:"2020/08/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/06/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/07/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:node-bl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2023 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/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(9)\.[0-9]+", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 9.0', 'Debian ' + release);
cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Debian', cpu);
pkgs = [
{'release': '9.0', 'prefix': 'node-bl', 'reference': '1.1.2-1+deb9u1'}
];
flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
release = NULL;
prefix = NULL;
reference = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['prefix'])) prefix = package_array['prefix'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (release && prefix && reference) {
if (deb_check(release:release, prefix:prefix, reference:reference)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : deb_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'node-bl');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | node-bl | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:node-bl |
debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0 |