5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
57.9%
A local attacker could exploit Audacity’s insecure handling of the directory for temporary files to conduct symlink attacks in order to delete arbitrary files and directories with the privileges of the user running Audacity.
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 2008-3511.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(32202);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-6061");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2008-3511");
script_name(english:"Fedora 7 : audacity-1.3.2-21.fc7 (2008-3511)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A local attacker could exploit Audacity's insecure handling of the
directory for temporary files to conduct symlink attacks in order to
delete arbitrary files and directories with the privileges of the user
running Audacity.
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=393251"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2008-May/009739.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?47c83ad4"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected audacity package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/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:audacity");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/05/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/05/11");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 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:"audacity-1.3.2-21.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, "audacity");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | audacity | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:audacity |
fedoraproject | fedora | 7 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7 |