4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain ‘slocate’ group privileges and then read the entire slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0848 to this issue.
Users of Slocate should upgrade to these packages which contain a patch from Kevin Lindsay which causes slocate to drop privileges before reading a user-supplied database.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2004-059.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(13672);
script_version("1.19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0848");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2004-059");
script_name(english:"Fedora Core 1 : slocate-2.7-4 (2004-059)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and
including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a
heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to
gain 'slocate' group privileges and then read the entire slocate
database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0848 to this issue.
Users of Slocate should upgrade to these packages which contain a
patch from Kevin Lindsay which causes slocate to drop privileges
before reading a user-supplied database.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2004-January/000041.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?658f5c08"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected slocate and / or slocate-debuginfo packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/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:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/01/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/07/23");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^1([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 1.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC1", cpu:"i386", reference:"slocate-2.7-4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC1", cpu:"i386", reference:"slocate-debuginfo-2.7-4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "slocate / slocate-debuginfo");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | slocate | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate |
fedoraproject | fedora | slocate-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:slocate-debuginfo |
fedoraproject | fedora_core | 1 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:1 |