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GLSA-201812-05 : EDE: Privilege escalation

2018-12-0700:00:00
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The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201812-05 (EDE: Privilege escalation)

An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE.

Impact :

A local attacker could escalate his privileges via a specially crafted       Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory or a parent       directory of an opened file.

Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201812-05.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(119483);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/21");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0035");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"201812-05");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-201812-05 : EDE: 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-201812-05
(EDE: Privilege escalation)

    An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in EDE.
  
Impact :

    A local attacker could escalate his privileges via a specially crafted
      Lisp expression in a Project.ede file in the directory or a parent
      directory of an opened file.
  
Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-05"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution",
    value:
"All EDE users should upgrade to the latest version:
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-xemacs/ede-1.07'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/01/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/12/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/12/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  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:"app-xemacs/ede", unaffected:make_list("ge 1.07"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 1.07"))) 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, "EDE");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
gentoolinuxedep-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ede
gentoolinuxcpe:/o:gentoo:linux