Francisco Alonso of Red Hat Product Security found an issue in the file utility: when checking ELF files, note headers are incorrectly checked, thus potentially allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) by supplying a specially crafted ELF file.
For the long-term stable distribution (squeeze-lts), this problem has been fixed in version 5.04-5+squeeze8.
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-86-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(82231);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3710");
script_bugtraq_id(70807);
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-86-1 : file 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:
"Francisco Alonso of Red Hat Product Security found an issue in the
file utility: when checking ELF files, note headers are incorrectly
checked, thus potentially allowing attackers to cause a denial of
service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) by supplying a
specially crafted ELF file.
For the long-term stable distribution (squeeze-lts), this problem has
been fixed in version 5.04-5+squeeze8.
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/2014/11/msg00005.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/file"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:file");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagic-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagic1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-magic");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-magic-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/11/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/26");
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:"file", reference:"5.04-5+squeeze8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libmagic-dev", reference:"5.04-5+squeeze8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libmagic1", reference:"5.04-5+squeeze8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"python-magic", reference:"5.04-5+squeeze8")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"python-magic-dbg", reference:"5.04-5+squeeze8")) 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 | file | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:file |
debian | debian_linux | libmagic-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagic-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libmagic1 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagic1 |
debian | debian_linux | python-magic | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-magic |
debian | debian_linux | python-magic-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-magic-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |