A flaw was found in the way the tomcat5 init script handled the catalina.out log file. A malicious web application deployed on Tomcat could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to change the ownership of an arbitrary system file to that of the tomcat user, allowing them to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2013-1976)
Note: With this update, /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out has been moved to the /var/log/tomcat5-initd.log file.
Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect.
#%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(66664);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-1976");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : tomcat5 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130528)");
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:
"A flaw was found in the way the tomcat5 init script handled the
catalina.out log file. A malicious web application deployed on Tomcat
could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to change the
ownership of an arbitrary system file to that of the tomcat user,
allowing them to escalate their privileges to root. (CVE-2013-1976)
Note: With this update, /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out has been moved
to the /var/log/tomcat5-initd.log file.
Tomcat must be restarted for this update to take effect."
);
# https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1305&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=2291
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ddc5e362"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-common-lib");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jasper");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-server-lib");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-webapps");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/07/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/05/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/05/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 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("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) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 5.x", "Scientific Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-debuginfo-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-jasper-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL5", reference:"tomcat5-webapps-5.5.23-0jpp.40.el5_9")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "tomcat5 / tomcat5-admin-webapps / tomcat5-common-lib / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5 | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5 |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-admin-webapps | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-admin-webapps |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-common-lib | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-common-lib |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-debuginfo |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-jasper | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jasper |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-jasper-javadoc | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jasper-javadoc |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-server-lib | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-server-lib |
fermilab | scientific_linux | tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api |