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HistoryAug 01, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Scientific Linux Security Update : tcpdump on SL5.x i386/x86_64

2012-08-0100:00:00
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Problem description :

Moritz Jodeit discovered a denial of service bug in the tcpdump IEEE 802.11 processing code. If a certain link type was explicitly specified, an attacker could inject a carefully crafted frame onto the IEEE 802.11 network that could crash a running tcpdump session.
(CVE-2007-1218)

An integer overflow flaw was found in tcpdump’s BGP processing code.
An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the pcap user by injecting a crafted frame onto the network.
(CVE-2007-3798)

In addition, the following bugs have been addressed :

  • The arpwatch service initialization script would exit prematurely, returning an incorrect successful exit status and preventing the status command from running in case networking is not available.

  • Tcpdump would not drop root privileges completely when launched with the

  • -C option. This might have been abused by an attacker to gain root privileges in case a security problem was found in tcpdump. Users of tcpdump are encouraged to specify meaningful arguments to the -Z option in case they want tcpdump to write files with privileges other than of the pcap user.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(60299);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-1218", "CVE-2007-3798");

  script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : tcpdump on SL5.x i386/x86_64");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Problem description :

Moritz Jodeit discovered a denial of service bug in the tcpdump IEEE
802.11 processing code. If a certain link type was explicitly
specified, an attacker could inject a carefully crafted frame onto the
IEEE 802.11 network that could crash a running tcpdump session.
(CVE-2007-1218)

An integer overflow flaw was found in tcpdump's BGP processing code.
An attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the
pcap user by injecting a crafted frame onto the network.
(CVE-2007-3798)

In addition, the following bugs have been addressed :

  - The arpwatch service initialization script would exit
    prematurely, returning an incorrect successful exit
    status and preventing the status command from running in
    case networking is not available.

  - Tcpdump would not drop root privileges completely when
    launched with the

  - -C option. This might have been abused by an attacker to
    gain root privileges in case a security problem was
    found in tcpdump. Users of tcpdump are encouraged to
    specify meaningful arguments to the -Z option in case
    they want tcpdump to write files with privileges other
    than of the pcap user."
  );
  # https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0711&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=769
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?83940818"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected arpwatch, libpcap and / or tcpdump packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_cwe_id(119, 189);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/08/01");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");

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

  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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
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 (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"arpwatch-2.1a13-18.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"libpcap-0.9.4-11.el5")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tcpdump-3.9.4-11.el5")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
fermilabscientific_linuxx-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux