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Fedora Core 4 : slocate-2.7-22.fc4.1 (2005-770)

🗓️ 23 Aug 2005 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. A carefully prepared directory structure could stop the updatedb filesystem scan, resulting in an incomplete slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name CVE-2005-2499 to this issue

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2005-770.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(19480);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2499");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2005-770");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 4 : slocate-2.7-22.fc4.1 (2005-770)");
  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:
"A carefully prepared directory structure could stop the updatedb file
system scan, resulting in an incomplete slocate database. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project has assigned the name
CVE-2005-2499 to this issue.

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/2005-August/001271.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?38d2984d"
  );
  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:N/I:N/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:4");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/08/23");
  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:"slocate-2.7-22.fc4.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"slocate-debuginfo-2.7-22.fc4.1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(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");
}

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11 Jan 2021 00:00Current
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