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FreeBSD : cURL -- uninitialized random vulnerability (c40ca16c-4d9f-4d70-8b6c-4d53aeb8ead4)

2016-12-2700:00:00
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Project curl Security Advisory :

libcurl’s (new) internal function that returns a good 32bit random value was implemented poorly and overwrote the pointer instead of writing the value into the buffer the pointer pointed to.

This random value is used to generate nonces for Digest and NTLM authentication, for generating boundary strings in HTTP formposts and more. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random there makes these operations vulnerable.

This function is brand new in 7.52.0 and is the result of an overhaul to make sure libcurl uses strong random as much as possible - provided by the backend TLS crypto libraries when present. The faulty function was introduced in this commit.

We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(96120);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9594");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : cURL -- uninitialized random vulnerability (c40ca16c-4d9f-4d70-8b6c-4d53aeb8ead4)");
  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:
"Project curl Security Advisory :

libcurl's (new) internal function that returns a good 32bit random
value was implemented poorly and overwrote the pointer instead of
writing the value into the buffer the pointer pointed to.

This random value is used to generate nonces for Digest and NTLM
authentication, for generating boundary strings in HTTP formposts and
more. Having a weak or virtually non-existent random there makes these
operations vulnerable.

This function is brand new in 7.52.0 and is the result of an overhaul
to make sure libcurl uses strong random as much as possible - provided
by the backend TLS crypto libraries when present. The faulty function
was introduced in this commit.

We are not aware of any exploit of this flaw."
  );
  # https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161223.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2016-9594.html"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/c40ca16c-4d9f-4d70-8b6c-4d53aeb8ead4.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?eef2180d"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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:curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/12/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/12/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/12/27");
  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:"curl>=7.52.0<7.52.1")) 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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdcurlp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:curl
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd