CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2830 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-2830. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(155707);
script_version("1.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/22");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-20482");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2830-1 : tar - 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 packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2830
advisory.
- GNU Tar through 1.30, when --sparse is used, mishandles file shrinkage during read access, which allows
local users to cause a denial of service (infinite read loop in sparse_dump_region in sparse.c) by
modifying a file that is supposed to be archived by a different user's process (e.g., a system backup
running as root). (CVE-2018-20482)
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://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917377");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/tar");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2830");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20482");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/tar");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the tar packages.
For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.29b-1.1+deb9u1.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/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:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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-2018-20482");
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:"2018/12/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/11/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/11/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tar");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tar-scripts");
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);
var release = get_kb_item('Host/Debian/release');
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian');
var release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(9)\.[0-9]+", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Debian 9.0', 'Debian ' + release);
var 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);
var pkgs = [
{'release': '9.0', 'prefix': 'tar', 'reference': '1.29b-1.1+deb9u1'},
{'release': '9.0', 'prefix': 'tar-scripts', 'reference': '1.29b-1.1+deb9u1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var release = NULL;
var prefix = NULL;
var 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_NOTE,
extra : deb_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = deb_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'tar / tar-scripts');
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%