4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.026 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.3%
It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not properly restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could use this flaw to crash those utilities by providing long input strings. (CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)
#%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(71296);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0221", "CVE-2013-0222", "CVE-2013-0223");
script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : coreutils on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20131121)");
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:
"It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not
properly restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could
use this flaw to crash those utilities by providing long input
strings. (CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)"
);
# https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1312&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=2698
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?e76295f7"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected coreutils, coreutils-debuginfo and / or
coreutils-libs packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:coreutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:coreutils-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:coreutils-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/11/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/11/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/12/10");
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:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 6.x", "Scientific Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"coreutils-8.4-31.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6")) 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, "coreutils / coreutils-debuginfo / coreutils-libs");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fermilab | scientific_linux | coreutils | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:coreutils |
fermilab | scientific_linux | coreutils-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:coreutils-debuginfo |
fermilab | scientific_linux | coreutils-libs | p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:coreutils-libs |
fermilab | scientific_linux | x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux |