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HistoryJun 19, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DLA-990-1 : expat security update

2017-06-1900:00:00
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It was discovered that there was an infinite loop vulnerability in expat, a XML parsing C library :

https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/

For Debian 7 ‘Wheezy’, this issue has been fixed in expat version 2.1.0-1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat 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-990-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(100850);
  script_version("3.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9233");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-990-1 : expat 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:
"It was discovered that there was an infinite loop vulnerability in
expat, a XML parsing C library :

https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in expat version
2.1.0-1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your expat 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://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/06/msg00018.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/expat"
  );
  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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/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:expat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-udeb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/19");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 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:"7.0", prefix:"expat", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lib64expat1", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"lib64expat1-dev", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1-dev", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u5")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libexpat1-udeb", reference:"2.1.0-1+deb7u5")) 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");
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