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GLSA-200907-13 : PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation

2009-07-1700:00:00
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The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200907-13 (PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation)

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered     that the pulseaudio binary is installed setuid root, and does not drop     privileges before re-executing itself. The vulnerability has     independently been reported to oCERT by Yorick Koster.

Impact :

A local user who has write access to any directory on the file system     containing /usr/bin can exploit this vulnerability using a race     condition to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Workaround :

Ensure that the file system holding /usr/bin does not contain     directories that are writable for unprivileged users.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-13.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(39848);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1894");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200907-13");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-200907-13 : PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200907-13
(PulseAudio: Local privilege escalation)

    Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team discovered
    that the pulseaudio binary is installed setuid root, and does not drop
    privileges before re-executing itself. The vulnerability has
    independently been reported to oCERT by Yorick Koster.
  
Impact :

    A local user who has write access to any directory on the file system
    containing /usr/bin can exploit this vulnerability using a race
    condition to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
  
Workaround :

    Ensure that the file system holding /usr/bin does not contain
    directories that are writable for unprivileged users."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200907-13"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All PulseAudio users should upgrade to the latest version:
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.9-r54'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(362);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pulseaudio");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/07/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/17");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"media-sound/pulseaudio", unaffected:make_list("ge 0.9.9-r54"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 0.9.9-r54"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "PulseAudio");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
gentoolinuxpulseaudiop-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pulseaudio
gentoolinuxcpe:/o:gentoo:linux