CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
84.4%
It was discovered that polarssl, a library providing SSL and TLS support, contained two heap-based buffer overflows that could allow a remote attacker to trigger denial of service (via application crash) or arbitrary code execution.
#%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-3468. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(88602);
script_version("2.4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-5291", "CVE-2015-8036");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3468");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3468-1 : polarssl - 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 polarssl, a library providing SSL and TLS
support, contained two heap-based buffer overflows that could allow a
remote attacker to trigger denial of service (via application crash)
or arbitrary code execution."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801413"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/polarssl"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/polarssl"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3468"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the polarssl packages.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been
fixed in version 1.2.9-1~deb7u6.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.3.9-2.1+deb8u1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:polarssl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/02/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/02/08");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 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:"7.0", prefix:"libpolarssl-dev", reference:"1.2.9-1~deb7u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpolarssl-runtime", reference:"1.2.9-1~deb7u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpolarssl0", reference:"1.2.9-1~deb7u6")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libpolarssl-dev", reference:"1.3.9-2.1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libpolarssl-runtime", reference:"1.3.9-2.1+deb8u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libpolarssl7", reference:"1.3.9-2.1+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");