CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
87.4%
Network Manager passes logging messages straight to syslog as the format string. This causes it to crash when connecting to access points that contain format string characters.
This was reported initially by Ian Jackson :
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-July/msg00196.
html
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 2005-680.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(19322);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2410");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2005-680");
script_name(english:"Fedora Core 4 : NetworkManager-0.4-20.FC4.1 (2005-680)");
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:
"Network Manager passes logging messages straight to syslog as the
format string. This causes it to crash when connecting to access
points that contain format string characters.
This was reported initially by Ian Jackson :
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-July/msg00196.
html
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."
);
# http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-July/msg00196.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?09f2adc8"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2005-July/001183.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?98a7a469"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/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:NetworkManager");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:NetworkManager-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:NetworkManager-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:NetworkManager-glib");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:NetworkManager-gnome");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/07/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/31");
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:"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:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 4.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"NetworkManager-0.4-20.FC4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.4-20.FC4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"NetworkManager-devel-0.4-20.FC4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"NetworkManager-glib-0.4-20.FC4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"NetworkManager-gnome-0.4-20.FC4.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "NetworkManager / NetworkManager-debuginfo / NetworkManager-devel / etc");
}