CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
99.5%
Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to execute malicious 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-1053. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(22595);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-1993");
script_bugtraq_id(17671);
script_xref(name:"CERT", value:"866300");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1053");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1053-1 : mozilla - programming error");
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:
"Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott described crashes of Mozilla due to the
use of a deleted controller context. In theory this could be abused to
execute malicious code."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1053"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the mozilla packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.7.8-1sarge6."
);
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:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mozilla");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/05/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/10/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/04/23");
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:"libnspr-dev", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libnspr4", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libnss-dev", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libnss3", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-browser", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-calendar", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-chatzilla", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-dev", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-dom-inspector", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-js-debugger", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-mailnews", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"mozilla-psm", reference:"1.7.8-1sarge6")) 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");