| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-40647 | 9 Sep 202218:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| The vulnerability of the command-line tool man2html, related to the issue of writing operations out of buffer in memory when processing the size parameter, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a service failure. | 17 Sep 202500:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2021-40647 | 9 Sep 202222:32 | – | circl | |
| man2html 缓冲区错误漏洞 | 9 Sep 202200:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2021-40647 | 9 Sep 202217:57 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2021-40647 | 9 Sep 202217:57 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2021-40647 | 9 Sep 202217:57 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2021-27821 | 3 Oct 202520:07 | – | euvd | |
| [SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: man2html-1.6-39.g.fc40 | 7 Mar 202503:42 | – | fedora | |
| [SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: man2html-1.6-39.g.fc42 | 15 Mar 202500:49 | – | fedora |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2025-538f2e492d
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(232331);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/03/10");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-40647");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2025-538f2e492d");
script_name(english:"Fedora 41 : man2html (2025-538f2e492d)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
FEDORA-2025-538f2e492d advisory.
* Refresh patches
* Add -std=gnu17 to CFLAGS to fix the build
* 042-man2html-CVE-2021-40647.patch
* Add more patches from Debian
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-538f2e492d");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected man2html package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-40647");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/09/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/02/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/03/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:man2html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Fedora' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^41([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 41', 'Fedora ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'man2html-1.6-39.g.fc41', 'release':'FC41', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'man2html');
}
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