The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - netpbm: heap-buffer-overflow in pm_mallocarray2 function in lib/util/mallocvar.
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 40 |
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Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: netpbm-10.93.00-1.fc33 | 31 Jan 202101:28 | – | fedora |
Fedora | [SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: netpbm-10.93.00-1.fc32 | 4 Feb 202101:57 | – | fedora |
RedhatCVE | CVE-2018-8975 | 27 Mar 201821:49 | – | redhatcve |
OpenVAS | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for netpbm (EulerOS-SA-2019-2173) | 23 Jan 202000:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for netpbm (EulerOS-SA-2020-1255) | 13 Mar 202000:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | openSUSE: Security Advisory for netpbm (openSUSE-SU-2019:1200-1) | 13 Apr 201900:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:0855-1) | 9 Jun 202100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora: Security Advisory for netpbm (FEDORA-2021-f62099fe51) | 4 Feb 202100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora: Security Advisory for netpbm (FEDORA-2021-df9ede6a02) | 1 Feb 202100:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2019-0183) | 28 Jan 202200:00 | – | openvas |
Source | Link |
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cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
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# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory netpbm. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
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include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(199399);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/03");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-8975");
script_name(english:"RHEL 8 : netpbm (Unpatched Vulnerability)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat 8 host is affected by a vulnerability that will not be patched.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that
has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.
- netpbm: heap-buffer-overflow in pm_mallocarray2 function in lib/util/mallocvar.c (CVE-2018-8975)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package
is installed.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"The vendor has acknowledged the vulnerability but no solution has been provided. Refer to the vendor for remediation
guidance.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
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script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-8975");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/03/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/06/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:netpbm");
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) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "redhat_repos.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
include('rhel.inc');
if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched"))
exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Red Hat' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Red Hat');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (!rhel_check_release(operator: 'ge', os_version: os_ver, rhel_version: '8')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Red Hat 8.x', 'Red Hat ' + 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$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu && 'ppc' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Red Hat', cpu);
var constraints = [
{
'pkgs': [
{'reference':'netpbm', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'unpatched_pkg':'netpbm'}
]
}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var constraint_array ( constraints ) {
var repo_relative_urls = NULL;
var enterprise_linux_flag = rhel_repo_urls_has_content_dist_rhel(repo_urls:repo_relative_urls);
foreach var pkg ( constraint_array['pkgs'] ) {
var unpatched_pkg = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var exists_check = NULL;
var cves = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['unpatched_pkg'])) unpatched_pkg = pkg['unpatched_pkg'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['release'])) _release = 'RHEL' + pkg['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['sp'])) sp = pkg['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = pkg['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['exists_check'])) exists_check = pkg['exists_check'];
if (!empty_or_null(pkg['cves'])) cves = pkg['cves'];
if (unpatched_pkg &&
_release &&
(!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check)) &&
unpatched_package_exists(release:_release, package:unpatched_pkg, cves: cves)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
var extra = NULL;
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : unpatched_packages_report()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'netpbm');
}
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