5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.008 Low
EPSS
Percentile
81.5%
Several problems have been discovered in ht, a viewer, editor and analyser for various executables, that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
CAN-2005-1545 Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team discovered an integer overflow in the ELF parser.
CAN-2005-1546
The authors have discovered a buffer overflow in the PE parser.
#%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-743. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(18651);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1545", "CVE-2005-1546");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"743");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-743-1 : ht - buffer overflows, integer overflows");
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 problems have been discovered in ht, a viewer, editor and
analyser for various executables, that may lead to the execution of
arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems :
- CAN-2005-1545
Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Team
discovered an integer overflow in the ELF parser.
- CAN-2005-1546
The authors have discovered a buffer overflow in the PE
parser."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-743"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the ht package.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed
in version 0.5.0-1woody4. For the HP Precision architecture, you are
advised not to use this package anymore since we cannot provide
updated packages as it doesn't compile anymore.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8.0-2sarge4."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/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:ht");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/07/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/05/10");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
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:"3.0", prefix:"ht", reference:"0.5.0-1woody4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"ht", reference:"0.8.0-2sarge4")) 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 | ht | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ht |
debian | debian_linux | 3.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0 |
debian | debian_linux | 3.1 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1 |