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Fedora 20 : freexl-1.0.0i-1.fc20 (2015-3372)

🗓️ 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Four potentially harmful bugs in FreeXL causing crashes and stack corruption were fixed in this release, including the potential security breach through a purposely forged XLS document

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Code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2015-3372.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(81928);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2015-3372");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : freexl-1.0.0i-1.fc20 (2015-3372)");
  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:
"Four potentially harmful bugs causing crashes and stack corruption
were detected in FreeXL by American Fuzzy Lop and are solved in this
release.

Please note: such issues are never realistically expected to be
encountered in real world XLS spreadsheets, anyway some purposely
forged XLS document could be used as a 'poisoned bait' to maliciously
open a security breach.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spatialite-users/plxKNbYw184

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=1199328"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spatialite-users/plxKNbYw184"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152057.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d0df15ee"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected freexl package."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freexl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/03/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/19");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 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:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.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:"FC20", reference:"freexl-1.0.0i-1.fc20")) 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, "freexl");
}

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