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Debian DSA-3428-1 : tomcat8 - security update

2015-12-21T00:00:00
ID DEBIAN_DSA-3428.NASL
Type nessus
Reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
Modified 2020-05-02T00:00:00

Description

It was discovered that malicious web applications could use the Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section.

                                        
                                            #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-3428. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(87511);
  script_version("2.7");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/10 11:49:37");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-7810");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3428");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3428-1 : tomcat8 - security update");
  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 malicious web applications could use the
Expression Language to bypass protections of a Security Manager as
expressions were evaluated within a privileged code section."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/tomcat8"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3428"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the tomcat8 packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.0.14-1+deb8u1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  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:tomcat8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/12/21");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 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:"8.0", prefix:"libservlet3.1-java", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libservlet3.1-java-doc", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libtomcat8-java", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"tomcat8", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"tomcat8-admin", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"tomcat8-common", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"tomcat8-docs", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"tomcat8-examples", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"tomcat8-user", reference:"8.0.14-1+deb8u1")) 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");
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