Ulf Harnhammar and an anonymous researcher from Germany discovered a vulnerability in the protocol code of freshclam, a command line utility responsible for downloading and installing virus signature updates for ClamAV, the antivirus scanner for Unix. This could lead to a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1050. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(22592);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1989");
script_bugtraq_id(17754);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1050");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1050-1 : clamav - buffer overflow");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Ulf Harnhammar and an anonymous researcher from Germany discovered a
vulnerability in the protocol code of freshclam, a command line
utility responsible for downloading and installing virus signature
updates for ClamAV, the antivirus scanner for Unix. This could lead to
a denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1050"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the clamav packages.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain clamav packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.84-2.sarge.9."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:clamav");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/05/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/05/01");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 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:"3.1", prefix:"clamav", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"clamav-base", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"clamav-daemon", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"clamav-docs", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"clamav-freshclam", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"clamav-milter", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"clamav-testfiles", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libclamav-dev", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libclamav1", reference:"0.84-2.sarge.9")) 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 | clamav | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:clamav |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |