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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : c-ares (SUSE-SU-2024:1136-1)

2024-04-0900:00:00
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suse linux
c-ares vulnerability
asynchronous dns

4.4 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1136-1 advisory.

  • c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. ares__read_line() is used to parse local configuration files such as /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, the HOSTALIASES file, and if using a c-ares version prior to 1.27.0, the /etc/hosts file. If any of these configuration files has an embedded NULL character as the first character in a new line, it can lead to attempting to read memory prior to the start of the given buffer which may result in a crash. This issue is fixed in c-ares 1.27.0.
    No known workarounds exist. (CVE-2024-25629)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2024:1136-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(193072);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/09");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-25629");
  script_xref(name:"SuSE", value:"SUSE-SU-2024:1136-1");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : c-ares (SUSE-SU-2024:1136-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are
affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1136-1 advisory.

  - c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests. `ares__read_line()` is used to parse local
    configuration files such as `/etc/resolv.conf`, `/etc/nsswitch.conf`, the `HOSTALIASES` file, and if using
    a c-ares version prior to 1.27.0, the `/etc/hosts` file. If any of these configuration files has an
    embedded `NULL` character as the first character in a new line, it can lead to attempting to read memory
    prior to the start of the given buffer which may result in a crash. This issue is fixed in c-ares 1.27.0.
    No known workarounds exist. (CVE-2024-25629)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1220279");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2024-April/034886.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-25629");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected c-ares-devel, c-ares-utils, libcares2 and / or libcares2-32bit packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-25629");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/02/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/04/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/04/09");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:c-ares-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcares2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

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

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release !~ "^(SLED|SLES|SUSE)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE / openSUSE");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)(?:_SAP)?\d+|SUSE([\d.]+))", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'SUSE / openSUSE');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED15|SLED_SAP15|SLES15|SLES_SAP15|SUSE15\.5)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'SUSE SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15', 'SUSE / openSUSE (' + os_ver + ')');

if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'SUSE / openSUSE (' + os_ver + ')', cpu);

var service_pack = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(service_pack)) service_pack = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLED15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED15 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLED_SAP15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED_SAP15 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLES15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES15 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);
if (os_ver == "SLES_SAP15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(5)$", string:service_pack))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES_SAP15 SP5", os_ver + " SP" + service_pack);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLED_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'libcares2-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLED_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'libcares2-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES_SAP15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLES_SAP-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLED15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-15.5', 'sle-module-basesystem-release-15.5', 'sled-release-15.5', 'sles-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-15.5', 'sle-module-basesystem-release-15.5', 'sled-release-15.5', 'sles-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'libcares2-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLED15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-15.5', 'sle-module-basesystem-release-15.5', 'sled-release-15.5', 'sles-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'libcares2-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'sp':'5', 'release':'SLES15', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['SLE_HPC-release-15.5', 'sle-module-basesystem-release-15.5', 'sled-release-15.5', 'sles-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'c-ares-devel-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'release':'SUSE15.5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['openSUSE-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'c-ares-utils-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'release':'SUSE15.5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['openSUSE-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'libcares2-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'release':'SUSE15.5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['openSUSE-release-15.5']},
    {'reference':'libcares2-32bit-1.19.1-150000.3.26.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SUSE15.5', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'exists_check':['openSUSE-release-15.5']}
];

var ltss_caveat_required = FALSE;
var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (exists_check) {
      var check_flag = 0;
      foreach var check (exists_check) {
        if (!rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:check)) continue;
        check_flag++;
      }
      if (!check_flag) continue;
    }
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'c-ares-devel / c-ares-utils / libcares2 / libcares2-32bit');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
novellsuse_linuxc-ares-develp-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:c-ares-devel
novellsuse_linux15cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15
novellsuse_linuxlibcares2p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcares2

4.4 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%