CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
89.1%
A vulnerability has been reported in inotify-tools, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise an application using the library.
Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code with privileges of the application using the affected library.
NOTE: The programs shipped with inotify-tools are reportedly not affected.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.11.
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 2007-3074.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(28160);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5037");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-3074");
script_name(english:"Fedora 7 : inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7 (2007-3074)");
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:
"A vulnerability has been reported in inotify-tools, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise an
application using the library.
Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code with
privileges of the application using the affected library.
NOTE: The programs shipped with inotify-tools are reportedly not
affected.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.11.
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:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299771"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-November/004632.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?3e4b139d"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected inotify-tools, inotify-tools-debuginfo and / or
inotify-tools-devel packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:inotify-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:inotify-tools-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:inotify-tools-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/11/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/12");
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:"inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"inotify-tools-debuginfo-3.11-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"inotify-tools-devel-3.11-1.fc7")) 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, "inotify-tools / inotify-tools-debuginfo / inotify-tools-devel");
}