A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in sendmail :
sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a ‘\0’ (NUL) character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which (1) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408 (CVE-2009-4565).
Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0 customers.
This update provides a fix for this vulnerability.
#%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-2010:003.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(43867);
script_version("1.23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-4565");
script_bugtraq_id(37543);
script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2010:003");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2010-A-0002");
script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDVSA-2010:003)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in sendmail :
sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a '\0' (NUL) character
in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which (1) allows
man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers
via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification
Authority, and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access
restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate
Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408
(CVE-2009-4565).
Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.
This update provides a fix for this vulnerability."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.sendmail.org/releases/8.14.4"
);
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_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(310);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-cf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/01/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/01/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2021 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:"sendmail-8.14.1-2.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.14.1-2.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"sendmail-devel-8.14.1-2.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.14.1-2.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"sendmail-8.14.3-2.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.14.3-2.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"sendmail-devel-8.14.3-2.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.14.3-2.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.1", reference:"sendmail-8.14.3-3.1mdv2009.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.1", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.14.3-3.1mdv2009.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.1", reference:"sendmail-devel-8.14.3-3.1mdv2009.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.1", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.14.3-3.1mdv2009.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"sendmail-8.14.3-4.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.14.3-4.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"sendmail-devel-8.14.3-4.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.14.3-4.1mdv2010.0", 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");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
mandriva | linux | sendmail | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail |
mandriva | linux | sendmail-cf | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-cf |
mandriva | linux | sendmail-devel | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-devel |
mandriva | linux | sendmail-doc | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-doc |
mandriva | linux | 2008.0 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0 |
mandriva | linux | 2009.0 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0 |
mandriva | linux | 2009.1 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.1 |
mandriva | linux | 2010.0 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0 |