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HistorySep 17, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-4293-1 : discount - security update

2018-09-1700:00:00
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Several heap buffer overflows were found in discount, an implementation of the Markdown markup language, that could be triggered with specially crafted Markdown data and would cause discount to read past the end of internal buffers.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4293. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(117503);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/13 12:30:47");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-11468", "CVE-2018-11503", "CVE-2018-11504", "CVE-2018-12495");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4293");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4293-1 : discount - 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:
"Several heap buffer overflows were found in discount, an
implementation of the Markdown markup language, that could be
triggered with specially crafted Markdown data and would cause
discount to read past the end of internal buffers."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901912"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/discount"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/discount"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4293"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the discount packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.2.2-1+deb9u1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:discount");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/09/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/09/17");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 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:"9.0", prefix:"discount", reference:"2.2.2-1+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmarkdown2", reference:"2.2.2-1+deb9u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"libmarkdown2-dev", reference:"2.2.2-1+deb9u1")) 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_linuxdiscountp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:discount
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0