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Debian DSA-770-1 : gopher - insecure tmpfile creating

2005-07-3100:00:00
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John Goerzen discovered that gopher, a client for the Gopher Distributed Hypertext protocol, creates temporary files in an insecure fashion.

#%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-770. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(19319);
  script_version("1.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1853");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"770");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-770-1 : gopher - insecure tmpfile creating");
  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:
"John Goerzen discovered that gopher, a client for the Gopher
Distributed Hypertext protocol, creates temporary files in an insecure
fashion."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-770"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the gopher package.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.3woody3.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.7sarge1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gopher");
  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:"2005/07/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/07/29");
  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:"gopher", reference:"3.0.3woody3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gopherd", reference:"3.0.3woody3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"gopher", reference:"3.0.7sarge1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxgopherp-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gopher
debiandebian_linux3.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0
debiandebian_linux3.1cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1