It was discovered that in portions of neon, sscanf() is used in an unsafe manner. This will result in an overflow of a static heap variable.
The updated packages provide a patched libneon to correct these problems.
#%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-2004:049.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(14148);
script_version("1.19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0398");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2004:049");
script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libneon (MDKSA-2004:049)");
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:
"It was discovered that in portions of neon, sscanf() is used in an
unsafe manner. This will result in an overflow of a static heap
variable.
The updated packages provide a patched libneon to correct these
problems."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/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:lib64neon0.24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64neon0.24-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64neon0.24-static-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libneon0.24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libneon0.24-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libneon0.24-static-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/05/19");
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:"MDK10.0", cpu:"amd64", reference:"lib64neon0.24-0.24.5-0.2.100mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.0", cpu:"amd64", reference:"lib64neon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.2.100mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.0", cpu:"amd64", reference:"lib64neon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.2.100mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libneon0.24-0.24.5-0.2.100mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libneon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.2.100mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libneon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.2.100mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.2", cpu:"amd64", reference:"lib64neon0.24-0.24.5-0.2.92mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.2", cpu:"amd64", reference:"lib64neon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.2.92mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.2", cpu:"amd64", reference:"lib64neon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.2.92mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"libneon0.24-0.24.5-0.2.92mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"libneon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.2.92mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"libneon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.2.92mdk", 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");