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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xterm (MDVSA-2009:005)

🗓️ 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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A vulnerability in xterm allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted escape sequence (MDVSA-2009:005

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:005. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(36977);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2383");
  script_bugtraq_id(33060);
  script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2009:005");

  script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : xterm (MDVSA-2009:005)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A vulnerability has been discovered in xterm, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability
is caused due to xterm not properly processing the DECRQSS Device
Control Request Status String escape sequence. This can be exploited
to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands by e.g. tricking a user
into displaying a malicious text file containing a specially crafted
escape sequence via the more command in xterm (CVE-2008-2383).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected xterm package.");
  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:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(94);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xterm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  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:"MDK2008.0", reference:"xterm-229-2.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;

if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"xterm-232-1.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;

if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"xterm-236-1.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) 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");

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06 Jan 2021 00:00Current
5.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.9
CVSS 29.3
EPSS0.04974
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