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HistoryJan 17, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

Fedora Core 5 : w3m-0.5.1-15.fc5 (2007-078)

2007-01-1700:00:00
This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
www.tenable.com
17

9.3 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.127 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.5%

  • Resolves: rh#221484: CVE-2006-6772 w3m is vulnerable to format string attack via CN field of SSL/TLS certificate when invoked with -dump/-backend

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 2007-078.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(24200);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-6772");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-078");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 5 : w3m-0.5.1-15.fc5 (2007-078)");
  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:
"  - Resolves: rh#221484: CVE-2006-6772 w3m is vulnerable to
    format string attack via CN field of SSL/TLS certificate
    when invoked with -dump/-backend

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/package-announce/2007-January/001258.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?629e5f0f"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected w3m, w3m-debuginfo and / or w3m-img packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_cwe_id(134);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m-img");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/01/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/01/17");
  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:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 5.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:"FC5", reference:"w3m-0.5.1-15.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"w3m-debuginfo-0.5.1-15.fc5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"w3m-img-0.5.1-15.fc5")) 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, "w3m / w3m-debuginfo / w3m-img");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fedoraprojectfedoraw3mp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m
fedoraprojectfedoraw3m-debuginfop-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m-debuginfo
fedoraprojectfedoraw3m-imgp-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:w3m-img
fedoraprojectfedora_core5cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

9.3 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.127 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.5%