Takashi Iwai supplied a fix for a memory leak in the snd_page_alloc module. Local users could exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information from the kernel (CVE-2007-4571 ).
#%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-1505. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(31149);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4571");
script_bugtraq_id(25807);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1505");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1505-1 : alsa-driver - kernel memory leak");
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:
"Takashi Iwai supplied a fix for a memory leak in the snd_page_alloc
module. Local users could exploit this issue to obtain sensitive
information from the kernel (CVE-2007-4571 )."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4571"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1505"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the alsa-driver and alsa-modules-i386 packages.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.8-7sarge1. The prebuilt modules provided by
alsa-modules-i386 have been rebuilt to take advantage of this update,
and are available in version 1.0.8+2sarge2.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.13-5etch1. This issue was already fixed for the version of
ALSA provided by linux-2.6 in DSA 1479."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
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:alsa-driver");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/02/22");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/02/25");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
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:"alsa-base", reference:"1.0.8-7sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-headers", reference:"1.0.8-7sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-386", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-586tsc", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-686", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-686-smp", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-k6", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-k7", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4-k7-smp", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-386", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-586tsc", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-686", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-686-smp", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-k6", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-k7", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-modules-2.4.27-4-k7-smp", reference:"1.0.8+2sarge2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"alsa-source", reference:"1.0.8-7sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"alsa-base", reference:"1.0.13-5etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"alsa-source", reference:"1.0.13-5etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"linux-sound-base", reference:"1.0.13-5etch1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | alsa-driver | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:alsa-driver |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |
debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0 |