Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in lighttpd, a small and fast webserver with minimal memory footprint.
CVE-2011-4362 Xi Wang discovered that the base64 decoding routine which is used to decode user input during an HTTP authentication, suffers of a signedness issue when processing user input. As a result it is possible to force lighttpd to perform an out-of-bounds read which results in Denial of Service conditions.
CVE-2011-3389 When using CBC ciphers on an SSL enabled virtual host to communicate with certain client, a so called ‘BEAST’ attack allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plaintext HTTP traffic via a blockwise chosen-boundary attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session. Technically this is no lighttpd vulnerability. However, lighttpd offers a workaround to mitigate this problem by providing a possibility to disable CBC ciphers.
This updates includes this option by default. System administrators are advised to read the NEWS file of this update (as this may break older clients).
#%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-2368. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(57508);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2022/12/05");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-3389", "CVE-2011-4362");
script_bugtraq_id(49778, 50851);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2368");
script_xref(name:"CEA-ID", value:"CEA-2019-0547");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2368-1 : lighttpd - multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in lighttpd, a small and
fast webserver with minimal memory footprint.
- CVE-2011-4362
Xi Wang discovered that the base64 decoding routine
which is used to decode user input during an HTTP
authentication, suffers of a signedness issue when
processing user input. As a result it is possible to
force lighttpd to perform an out-of-bounds read which
results in Denial of Service conditions.
- CVE-2011-3389
When using CBC ciphers on an SSL enabled virtual host to
communicate with certain client, a so called 'BEAST'
attack allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain
plaintext HTTP traffic via a blockwise chosen-boundary
attack (BCBA) on an HTTPS session. Technically this is
no lighttpd vulnerability. However, lighttpd offers a
workaround to mitigate this problem by providing a
possibility to disable CBC ciphers.
This updates includes this option by default. System administrators
are advised to read the NEWS file of this update (as this may break
older clients).");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652726");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4362");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3389");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/lighttpd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2368");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the lighttpd packages.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.19-5+lenny3.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.28-2+squeeze1.");
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: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:"in_the_news", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/12/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/01/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lighttpd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2022 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
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:"lighttpd", reference:"1.4.19-5+lenny3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd-doc", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-cml", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-magnet", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"lighttpd-mod-webdav", reference:"1.4.28-2+squeeze1")) 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 | lighttpd | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lighttpd |
debian | debian_linux | 5.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0 |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3389
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4362
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652726
packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/lighttpd
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3389
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4362
www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2368