10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.065 Low
EPSS
Percentile
93.8%
The update of logwatch improves the input validation. Before it was possible by an attacker to use special characters in a log-file to execute arbitrary commands. (CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C))
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update logwatch-4029.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(53767);
script_version("1.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1018");
script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : logwatch (openSUSE-SU-2011:0242-1)");
script_summary(english:"Check for the logwatch-4029 patch");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"The update of logwatch improves the input validation. Before it was
possible by an attacker to use special characters in a log-file to
execute arbitrary commands. (CVSS v2 Base Score: 8.5
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C))"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674984"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00032.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected logwatch package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/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:novell:opensuse:logwatch");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/03/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/05/05");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/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/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.2", reference:"logwatch-7.3.6-67.67.1") ) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "logwatch");
}