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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2012-39)

2015-09-0800:00:00
Copyright (C) 2015 Eero Volotinen
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The remote host is missing an update announced via the referenced Security Advisory.

# Copyright (C) 2015 Eero Volotinen
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (C) of their respective author(s)
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120203");
  script_version("2020-03-13T13:19:50+0000");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-09-08 13:20:03 +0200 (Tue, 08 Sep 2015)");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2020-03-13 13:19:50 +0000 (Fri, 13 Mar 2020)");
  script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2012-39)");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way the glibc library read timezone files. If a carefully-crafted timezone file was loaded by an application linked against glibc, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2009-5029 )A denial of service flaw was found in the remote procedure call (RPC) implementation in glibc. A remote attacker able to open a large number of connections to an RPC service that is using the RPC implementation from glibc, could use this flaw to make that service use an excessive amount of CPU time. (CVE-2011-4609 )");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Run yum update glibc to update your system.");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2012-39.html");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-5029", "CVE-2011-4609");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/amazon_linux", "ssh/login/release");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update announced via the referenced Security Advisory.");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2015 Eero Volotinen");
  script_family("Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  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:"glibc-debuginfo-common", rpm:"glibc-debuginfo-common~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc-common", rpm:"glibc-common~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc-debuginfo", rpm:"glibc-debuginfo~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc-devel", rpm:"glibc-devel~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc", rpm:"glibc~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc-utils", rpm:"glibc-utils~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"nscd", rpm:"nscd~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc-headers", rpm:"glibc-headers~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"glibc-static", rpm:"glibc-static~2.12~1.47.32.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

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

exit(0);