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Fedora 10 : newt-0.52.10-2.fc10 (2009-9957)

🗓️ 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00Reported by This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.Type 
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Newt package update for Fedora 10 (2009-9957) fixes buffer overflow vulnerabilit

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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 2009-9957.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(41635);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2905");
  script_bugtraq_id(36515);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2009-9957");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 10 : newt-0.52.10-2.fc10 (2009-9957)");
  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:
"Fixes a buffer overflow in textbox, which could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code.

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=523955"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2009-September/029501.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4eaf43b3"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected newt package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(119);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:newt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/09/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/09/28");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 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:"^10([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 10.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:"FC10", reference:"newt-0.52.10-2.fc10")) 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, "newt");
}

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