There is a vulnerability in c-ares < 1.4.0, caused by predictable DNS ‘Transaction ID’ field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of an application using the library if a valid ID is guessed.
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.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 2007-0724.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(27676);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-3152", "CVE-2007-3153");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-0724");
script_name(english:"Fedora 7 : c-ares-1.4.0-1.fc7 (2007-0724)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"There is a vulnerability in c-ares < 1.4.0, caused by predictable DNS
'Transaction ID' field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison
the DNS cache of an application using the library if a valid ID is
guessed.
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.html"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-June/002388.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f6a80ef1"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected c-ares, c-ares-debuginfo and / or c-ares-devel
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:c-ares");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/06/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/06");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 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:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 7.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"c-ares-1.4.0-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"c-ares-debuginfo-1.4.0-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"c-ares-devel-1.4.0-1.fc7")) 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, "c-ares / c-ares-debuginfo / c-ares-devel");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | c-ares | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares |
fedoraproject | fedora | c-ares-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-debuginfo |
fedoraproject | fedora | c-ares-devel | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-devel |
fedoraproject | fedora | 7 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7 |