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FreeBSD : perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability (d9f99491-1656-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5)

2016-05-1100:00:00
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MITRE reports :

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(91028);
  script_version("2.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-2381");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : perl5 -- taint mechanism bypass vulnerability (d9f99491-1656-11e6-94fa-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:
"MITRE reports :

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint
protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment
variables in envp."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208879"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/d9f99491-1656-11e6-94fa-002590263bf5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?2371fbca"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5.20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5.22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/04/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/05/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  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:"perl5<5.18.4_21")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"perl5>=5.20.0<5.20.3_12")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"perl5>=5.22.0<5.22.1_8")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"perl5.18>=5.18.0<5.18.4_21")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"perl5.20>=5.20.0<5.20.3_12")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"perl5.22>=5.22.0<5.22.1_8")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"perl>=0")) 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
freebsdfreebsdperlp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl
freebsdfreebsdperl5p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5
freebsdfreebsdperl5.18p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5.18
freebsdfreebsdperl5.20p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5.20
freebsdfreebsdperl5.22p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:perl5.22
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd