CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
81.9%
Gustavo Grieco reports :
The Expat XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as memory corruption during a parse operation. The bugs allow for a denial of service attack in many applications by an unauthenticated attacker, and could conceivably result in remote code execution.
#%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 :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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# HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification,
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# 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above
# copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
# disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified.
# 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs,
# published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript,
# RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
# in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
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#
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# AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
# PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
# BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
# OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
# OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
# BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
# OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION,
# EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(91267);
script_version("2.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-0718");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : expat -- denial of service vulnerability on malformed input (57b3aba7-1e25-11e6-8dd3-002590263bf5)");
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:
"Gustavo Grieco reports :
The Expat XML parser mishandles certain kinds of malformed input
documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error
reporting. The overflows can manifest as a segmentation fault or as
memory corruption during a parse operation. The bugs allow for a
denial of service attack in many applications by an unauthenticated
attacker, and could conceivably result in remote code execution."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209360"
);
# http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/12
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/12"
);
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/57b3aba7-1e25-11e6-8dd3-002590263bf5.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?5bf6d850"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:expat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-c6-expat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-c7-expat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/05/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/05/20");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2021 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:"expat<2.1.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"linux-c6-expat<2.0.1_3")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"linux-c7-expat<2.1.0_1")) 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");
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
81.9%