CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
59.5%
A difficult to exploit vulnerability was discovered in versions of man prior to 1.5l. A bug exists in man that could cause a program named ‘unsafe’ to be executed due to a malformed man file. In order to exploit this bug, a local attacker would have to be able to get another user to read the malformed man file, and the attacker would also have to create a file called ‘unsafe’ that would be located somewhere in the victim’s path.
#%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-2003:054.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(14038);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0124");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2003:054");
script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : man (MDKSA-2003:054)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A difficult to exploit vulnerability was discovered in versions of man
prior to 1.5l. A bug exists in man that could cause a program named
'unsafe' to be executed due to a malformed man file. In order to
exploit this bug, a local attacker would have to be able to get
another user to read the malformed man file, and the attacker would
also have to create a file called 'unsafe' that would be located
somewhere in the victim's path."
);
# http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104740927915154&w=2
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104740927915154&w=2"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected man package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:man");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2003/05/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/07/31");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 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:"man-1.5j-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"man-1.5k-2.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"man-1.5k-8.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");