CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
94.5%
Problem description A fixed-size buffer is used in the decompression of data streams. Due to erronous analysis performed when zlib was written, this buffer, which was belived to be sufficiently large to handle any possible input stream, is in fact too small. Impact A carefully constructed compressed data stream can result in zlib overwriting some data structures. This may cause applications to halt, resulting in a denial of service; or it may result in an attacker gaining elevated privileges.
#%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(21460);
script_version("1.12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1849");
script_xref(name:"FreeBSD", value:"SA-05:18.zlib");
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : zlib -- buffer overflow vulnerability (837b9fb2-0595-11da-86bc-000e0c2e438a)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Problem description A fixed-size buffer is used in the decompression
of data streams. Due to erronous analysis performed when zlib was
written, this buffer, which was belived to be sufficiently large to
handle any possible input stream, is in fact too small. Impact A
carefully constructed compressed data stream can result in zlib
overwriting some data structures. This may cause applications to halt,
resulting in a denial of service; or it may result in an attacker
gaining elevated privileges."
);
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/837b9fb2-0595-11da-86bc-000e0c2e438a.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a7a8fbaf"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux_base-suse");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/07/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/05/13");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2021 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:"linux_base-suse<9.3_1")) 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");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
freebsd | freebsd | linux_base-suse | p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux_base-suse |
freebsd | freebsd | cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd |