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HistoryMar 15, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-3517-1 : exim4 - security update

2016-03-1500:00:00
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A local root privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Exim, Debian’s default mail transfer agent, in configurations using the’perl_startup’ option (Only Exim via exim4-daemon-heavy enables Perl support).

To address the vulnerability, updated Exim versions clean the complete execution environment by default, affecting Exim and subprocesses such as transports calling other programs, and thus may break existing installations. New configuration options (keep_environment, add_environment) were introduced to adjust this behavior.

More information can be found in the upstream advisory at https://www.exim.org/static/doc/CVE-2016-1531.txt

#%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-3517. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(89926);
  script_version("2.13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1531");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"3517");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-3517-1 : exim4 - 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:
"A local root privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Exim,
Debian's default mail transfer agent, in configurations using
the'perl_startup' option (Only Exim via exim4-daemon-heavy enables
Perl support).

To address the vulnerability, updated Exim versions clean the complete
execution environment by default, affecting Exim and subprocesses such
as transports calling other programs, and thus may break existing
installations. New configuration options (keep_environment,
add_environment) were introduced to adjust this behavior.

More information can be found in the upstream advisory at
https://www.exim.org/static/doc/CVE-2016-1531.txt"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.exim.org/static/doc/CVE-2016-1531.txt"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/exim4"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/exim4"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3517"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the exim4 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 4.80-7+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.84.2-1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4");
  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:"2016/03/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/03/15");
  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:"exim4", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-base", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-config", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-heavy", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-light", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-light-dbg", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-dbg", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"exim4-dev", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"eximon4", reference:"4.80-7+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-base", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-config", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-heavy", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-light", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-daemon-light-dbg", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-dbg", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"exim4-dev", reference:"4.84.2-1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"eximon4", reference:"4.84.2-1")) 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_linuxexim4p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:exim4
debiandebian_linux7.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0