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openSUSE Security Update : putty (openSUSE-2017-354)

2017-03-2000:00:00
This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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13

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.409 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.3%

This update to putty 0.68 fixes the following security issue :

  • CVE-2017-6542: If SSH agent forwarding is enabled, local attackers that are also able to connect to the UNIX domain socket could have overwritten heap data (boo#1029256)
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-354.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(97818);
  script_version("3.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6542");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : putty (openSUSE-2017-354)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2017-354 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update to putty 0.68 fixes the following security issue :

  - CVE-2017-6542: If SSH agent forwarding is enabled, local
    attackers that are also able to connect to the UNIX
    domain socket could have overwritten heap data
    (boo#1029256)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029256"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected putty 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:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/20");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

  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);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.1|SUSE42\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.1 / 42.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"putty-0.68-12.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"putty-debuginfo-0.68-12.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", reference:"putty-debugsource-0.68-12.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"putty-0.68-12.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"putty-debuginfo-0.68-12.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"putty-debugsource-0.68-12.1") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "putty / putty-debuginfo / putty-debugsource");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
novellopensuseputtyp-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty
novellopensuseputty-debuginfop-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debuginfo
novellopensuseputty-debugsourcep-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:putty-debugsource
novellopensuse42.1cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1
novellopensuse42.2cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.409 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.3%