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HistoryJul 13, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : gaim -- buffer overflow in MSN protocol support (1e6c4008-245f-11d9-b584-0050fc56d258)

2005-07-1300:00:00
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13

10 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.088 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.6%

Due to a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol support for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1, it is possible for remote clients to do a denial-of-service attack on the application. This is caused by an unbounded copy operation, which writes to the wrong buffer.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# 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(18861);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0891");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : gaim -- buffer overflow in MSN protocol support (1e6c4008-245f-11d9-b584-0050fc56d258)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Due to a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol support for gaim 0.79 to
1.0.1, it is possible for remote clients to do a denial-of-service
attack on the application. This is caused by an unbounded copy
operation, which writes to the wrong buffer."
  );
  # http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=9
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=9"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/1e6c4008-245f-11d9-b584-0050fc56d258.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d743126a"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-gaim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ru-gaim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/10/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/10/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  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:"gaim>=0.79<=1.0.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ja-gaim>=0.79<=1.0.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ru-gaim>=0.79<=1.0.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"gaim>20030000")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdgaimp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim
freebsdfreebsdja-gaimp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-gaim
freebsdfreebsdru-gaimp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ru-gaim
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

10 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.088 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.6%

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