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HistorySep 06, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xinetd (MDKSA-2002:053)

2012-09-0600:00:00
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9

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.3%

A vulnerability was discovered by Solar Designer in xinetd. File descriptors for the signal pipe that were introduced in version 2.3.4 are leaked into services started by xinetd, which can then be used to talk to xinetd, resulting in a crash of xinetd.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2002:053. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(61918);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2002-0871");
  script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2002:053");

  script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xinetd (MDKSA-2002:053)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A vulnerability was discovered by Solar Designer in xinetd. File
descriptors for the signal pipe that were introduced in version 2.3.4
are leaked into services started by xinetd, which can then be used to
talk to xinetd, resulting in a crash of xinetd."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected xinetd and / or xinetd-ipv6 packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xinetd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xinetd-ipv6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2002/08/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/09/06");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"xinetd-2.3.7-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"xinetd-ipv6-2.3.7-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
mandrivalinuxxinetdp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xinetd
mandrivalinuxxinetd-ipv6p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xinetd-ipv6
mandrakesoftmandrake_linux8.2cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.2

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.3%

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