5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.9%
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");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | expat | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:expat |
debian | debian_linux | lib64expat1 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1 |
debian | debian_linux | lib64expat1-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64expat1-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libexpat1 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1 |
debian | debian_linux | libexpat1-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libexpat1-udeb | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libexpat1-udeb |
debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0 |
5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.9%