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HistoryMay 26, 2021 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : NGINX -- 1-byte memory overwrite in resolver (0882f019-bd60-11eb-9bdd-8c164567ca3c)

2021-05-2600:00:00
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56

6.8 Medium

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

7.7 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

0.517 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.6%

NGINX team reports :

1-byte memory overwrite might occur during DNS server response processing if the ‘resolver’ directive was used, allowing an attacker who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause worker process crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
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#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(149974);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/03/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2021-23017");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : NGINX -- 1-byte memory overwrite in resolver (0882f019-bd60-11eb-9bdd-8c164567ca3c)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"NGINX team reports :

1-byte memory overwrite might occur during DNS server response
processing if the 'resolver' directive was used, allowing an attacker
who is able to forge UDP packets from the DNS server to cause worker
process crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution.");
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/0882f019-bd60-11eb-9bdd-8c164567ca3c.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f9dd1e81");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-23017");

  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:"2021/05/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:nginx");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:nginx-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"nginx<1.20.1,2")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"nginx-devel<1.21.0")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdnginxp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:nginx
freebsdfreebsdnginx-develp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:nginx-devel
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

6.8 Medium

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

7.7 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

0.517 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.6%