The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1999 advisory. It is missing one or more security updates for mailx
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 83 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | mailx security update | 16 Dec 201420:39 | – | centos |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 3105-1] heirloom-mailx security update | 16 Dec 201417:56 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DLA 114-1] heirloom-mailx security update | 17 Dec 201416:35 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 3104-1] bsd-mailx security update | 16 Dec 201417:56 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DLA 113-1] bsd-mailx security update | 17 Dec 201416:09 | – | debian |
![]() | mailx: Multiple vulnerabilities | 8 Apr 201800:00 | – | gentoo |
![]() | GLSA-201804-06 : mailx: Multiple vulnerabilities | 10 Apr 201800:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DLA-113-1 : bsd-mailx security update | 26 Mar 201500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 21 : mailx-12.5-14.fc21 (2014-17243) | 5 Jan 201500:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Fedora 19 : mailx-12.5-9.fc19 (2014-17277) | 5 Jan 201500:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2014:1999 and
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2014-1999 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(80071);
script_version("1.14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/10/22");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-2771", "CVE-2014-7844");
script_bugtraq_id(71701, 71704);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:1999");
script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : mailx (ELSA-2014-1999)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in
the ELSA-2014-1999 advisory.
[12.4-8]
- CVE-2004-2771 mailx: command execution flaw
resolves: #1171175
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected mailx package.");
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:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2004-2771");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2014-7844");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/12/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/12/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/12/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:mailx");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 6 / 7', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'mailx-12.4-8.el6_6', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'mailx-12.4-8.el6_6', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'6', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'mailx-12.5-12.el7_0', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'7', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'EL' + package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (exists_check) {
if (rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check) && rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
} else {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'mailx');
}
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