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Slackware 9.0 : 2.4.21 kernels available (SSA:2003-168-01)

🗓️ 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Slackware 9.0 2.4.21 kernels: improved ptrace & netfilter fi

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2003-168-01. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Slackware Linux, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(18741);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_xref(name:"SSA", value:"2003-168-01");

  script_name(english:"Slackware 9.0 : 2.4.21 kernels available (SSA:2003-168-01)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in /var/log/packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Slackware host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Precompiled Linux 2.4.21 kernels and source packages are now
available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These provide an improved
version of the ptrace fix that had been applied to 2.4.20 in Slackware
9.0 (for example, command line options now appear correctly when root
does 'ps ax'), and fix a potential denial of service problem with
netfilter."
  );
  # http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2003&m=slackware-security.522012
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e3f135eb"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:slackware:slackware_linux:kernel-headers");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:slackware:slackware_linux:kernel-ide");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:slackware:slackware_linux:kernel-modules");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:slackware:slackware_linux:kernel-source");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:slackware:slackware_linux:9.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2003/06/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Slackware Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Slackware/release", "Host/Slackware/packages");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("slackware.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Slackware/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Slackware");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Slackware/packages")) 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$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Slackware", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (slackware_check(osver:"9.0", pkgname:"kernel-headers", pkgver:"2.4.21", pkgarch:"i386", pkgnum:"1")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"9.0", pkgname:"kernel-ide", pkgver:"2.4.21", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"9.0", pkgname:"kernel-modules", pkgver:"2.4.21_xfs", pkgarch:"i486", pkgnum:"1")) flag++;
if (slackware_check(osver:"9.0", pkgname:"kernel-source", pkgver:"2.4.21", pkgarch:"noarch", pkgnum:"1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:slackware_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

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