Oracle Java SE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Feb 2014) - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108424");
  script_version("2024-11-22T15:40:47+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-1876");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.4");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-11-22 15:40:47 +0000 (Fri, 22 Nov 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2014-02-13 12:54:10 +0530 (Thu, 13 Feb 2014)");
  script_name("Oracle Java SE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Feb 2014) - Linux");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2014 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Privilege escalation");
  script_dependencies("gb_java_prdts_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Sun/Java/JRE/Linux/Ver");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/242");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65568");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.oracle.com/index.html");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Oracle Java SE is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to some error in the
  'unpacker::redirect_stdio' function within 'unpack.cpp'.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow a local
  attacker to use a symlink attack against the '/tmp/unpack.log' file to overwrite
  arbitrary files.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Oracle Java SE 7 update 51 and prior on
  Linux");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to version 8 update 5 or 7 update 55,
  or later.");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

cpe_list = make_list("cpe:/a:oracle:jre", "cpe:/a:oracle:jdk");

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location_from_list(cpe_list:cpe_list, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];

if(vers =~ "^1\.7" && version_in_range(version:vers, test_version:"1.7", test_version2:"1.7.0.51")){
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version: "8 update 5 or 7 update 55", install_path:path);
  security_message(data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);