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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-496)

🗓️ 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType 
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The remote host is missing an update for the 'ntp' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-496 advisory. It was reported that ntp misses validation of vallen value, leading to various information leaks. It was reported that ntp allows bypassing source IP ACLs on some OSes when ::1 spoofed

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120172");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-9297", "CVE-2014-9298");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-09-08 11:19:11 +0000 (Tue, 08 Sep 2015)");
  script_version("2025-01-23T05:37:38+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-01-23 05:37:38 +0000 (Thu, 23 Jan 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"Greenbone");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-12-09 08:09:15 +0000 (Thu, 09 Dec 2021)");

  script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-496)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"ALAS-2015-496");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-496.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2671");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'ntp' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-496 advisory.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was reported that ntp misses validation of vallen value, leading to various information leaks. See for more details. (CVE-2014-9297)

It was reported that ntp allows bypassing source IP ACLs on some OSes when ::1 spoofed. (CVE-2014-9298)");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'ntp' package(s) on Amazon Linux.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

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

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");

release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "AMAZON") {

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ntp", rpm:"ntp~4.2.6p5~27.23.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ntp-debuginfo", rpm:"ntp-debuginfo~4.2.6p5~27.23.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ntp-doc", rpm:"ntp-doc~4.2.6p5~27.23.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ntp-perl", rpm:"ntp-perl~4.2.6p5~27.23.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"ntpdate", rpm:"ntpdate~4.2.6p5~27.23.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);

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