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HistoryDec 15, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-2133-1 : collectd - denial of service

2010-12-1500:00:00
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It was discovered that collectd, a statistics collection and monitoring daemon, is prone to a denial of service attack via a crafted network packet.

#%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-2133. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(51181);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4336");
  script_bugtraq_id(45075);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2133");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2133-1 : collectd - denial of service");
  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:
"It was discovered that collectd, a statistics collection and
monitoring daemon, is prone to a denial of service attack via a
crafted network packet."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605092"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2133"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the collectd packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.4.2-3+lenny1.

This advisory only contains the packages for the alpha, amd64, arm,
armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390 and sparc architectures.
The packages for the mipsel architecture will be released soon."
  );
  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_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:collectd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/12/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/12/15");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2021 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:"5.0", prefix:"collectd", reference:"4.4.2-3+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"collectd-dbg", reference:"4.4.2-3+lenny1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"collectd-dev", reference:"4.4.2-3+lenny1")) 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_linuxcollectdp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:collectd
debiandebian_linux5.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0