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Debian DSA-141-1 : mpack - buffer overflow

2004-09-2900:00:00
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11

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.3%

Eckehard Berns discovered a buffer overflow in the munpack program which is used for decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. If munpack is run on an appropriately malformed email (or news article) then it will crash, and perhaps can be made to run arbitrary code.

Herbert Xu reported a second vulnerability which affected malformed filenames that refer to files in upper directories like ‘…/a’. The security impact is limited, though, because only a single leading ‘…/’ was accepted and only new files can be created (i.e. no files will be overwritten).

Both problems have been fixed in version 1.5-5potato2 for the old stable distribution (potato), in version 1.5-7woody2 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.5-9 for the unstable distribution (sid).

#%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-141. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(14978);
  script_version("1.24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1424", "CVE-2002-1425");
  script_bugtraq_id(5385, 5386);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"141");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-141-1 : mpack - 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:
"Eckehard Berns discovered a buffer overflow in the munpack program
which is used for decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. If
munpack is run on an appropriately malformed email (or news article)
then it will crash, and perhaps can be made to run arbitrary code.

Herbert Xu reported a second vulnerability which affected malformed
filenames that refer to files in upper directories like '../a'. The
security impact is limited, though, because only a single leading
'../' was accepted and only new files can be created (i.e. no files
will be overwritten).

Both problems have been fixed in version 1.5-5potato2 for the old
stable distribution (potato), in version 1.5-7woody2 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.5-9 for the unstable
distribution (sid)."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-141"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Upgrade the mpack package immediately."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/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:mpack");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2002/08/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/09/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2002/08/01");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 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:"2.2", prefix:"mpack", reference:"1.5-5potato2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"mpack", reference:"1.5-7woody2")) 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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxmpackp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mpack
debiandebian_linux2.2cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2
debiandebian_linux3.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.3%

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