#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2017:1395. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(100716);
script_version("3.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/12/16");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-8779");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2017:1395");
script_name(english:"RHEL 6 / 7 : Storage Server (RHSA-2017:1395)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update for libntirpc is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage
3.2 for RHEL 6 and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 for RHEL 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
This package contains a new implementation of the original libtirpc,
transport-independent RPC (TI-RPC) library for NFS-Ganesha.
Security Fix(es) :
* It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc (libntirpc),
a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages.
An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its
memory usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be
terminated by the OOM killer. (CVE-2017-8779)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1395");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-8779");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected libntirpc, libntirpc-debuginfo and / or
libntirpc-devel packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
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:N/I:N/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-2017-8779");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/05/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/06/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/06/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libntirpc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libntirpc-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libntirpc-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(6|7)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 6.x / 7.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2017:1395";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (! (rpm_exists(release:"RHEL6", rpm:"glusterfs-server") || rpm_exists(release:"RHEL7", rpm:"glusterfs-server"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Storage Server");
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libntirpc-1.4.3-4.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libntirpc-debuginfo-1.4.3-4.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libntirpc-devel-1.4.3-4.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libntirpc-1.4.3-4.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libntirpc-debuginfo-1.4.3-4.el7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libntirpc-devel-1.4.3-4.el7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libntirpc / libntirpc-debuginfo / libntirpc-devel");
}
}
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