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Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wu-ftpd (MDKSA-2003:080)

2012-09-0600:00:00
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A vulnerability was discovered by Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski in the wu-ftpd FTP server package. They found an off-by- one bug in the fb_realpath() function which could be used by a remote attacker to obtain root privileges on the server. This bug can only be successfully accomplished by using wu-ftpd binaries compiled on Linux 2.0.x and later 2.4.x kernels because the 2.2.x and earlier 2.4.x kernels define PATH_MAX to be 4095 characters.

wu-ftpd is no longer shipped with Mandrake Linux, however Mandrake Linux 8.2 did come with wu-ftpd. If you use wu-ftpd, you are encouraged to upgrade to these patched packages.

#%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-2003:080. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(61921);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0466");
  script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2003:080");

  script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : wu-ftpd (MDKSA-2003:080)");
  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 vulnerability was discovered by Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech
Purczynski in the wu-ftpd FTP server package. They found an off-by-
one bug in the fb_realpath() function which could be used by a remote
attacker to obtain root privileges on the server. This bug can only be
successfully accomplished by using wu-ftpd binaries compiled on Linux
2.0.x and later 2.4.x kernels because the 2.2.x and earlier 2.4.x
kernels define PATH_MAX to be 4095 characters.

wu-ftpd is no longer shipped with Mandrake Linux, however Mandrake
Linux 8.2 did come with wu-ftpd. If you use wu-ftpd, you are
encouraged to upgrade to these patched packages."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected wu-ftpd package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2003/07/31");
  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:"wu-ftpd-2.6.2-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
mandrivalinuxwu-ftpdp-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:wu-ftpd
mandrakesoftmandrake_linux8.2cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.2