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FreeBSD : a2ps -- insecure temporary file creation (9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

2005-07-1300:00:00
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CVSS2

2.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

A Secunia Security Advisory reports that Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena has found temporary file creation vulnerabilities in the fixps and psmandup scripts which are part of a2ps. These vulnerabilities could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the credentials of the user running the vulnerable scripts.

#%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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#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(19030);
  script_version("1.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2004-1377");
  script_bugtraq_id(12108, 12109);
  script_xref(name:"Secunia", value:"13641");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : a2ps -- insecure temporary file creation (9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)");
  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:
"A Secunia Security Advisory reports that Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
Pena has found temporary file creation vulnerabilities in the fixps
and psmandup scripts which are part of a2ps. These vulnerabilities
could lead to an attacker overwriting arbitrary files with the
credentials of the user running the vulnerable scripts."
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/9168253c-5a6d-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?7688d3ce"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:ND");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:a2ps-a4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:a2ps-letter");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:a2ps-letterdj");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/12/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/12/30");
  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:"a2ps-a4<4.13b_3")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"a2ps-letter<4.13b_3")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"a2ps-letterdj<4.13b_3")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

CVSS2

2.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

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

EPSS

0

Percentile

5.1%

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