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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2012-100)

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
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120263");
  script_version("2020-03-13T13:19:50+0000");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-09-08 13:21:54 +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-2012-100)");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Event Poll (epoll) subsystem handled large, nested epoll structures. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.A malicious Network File System version 4 (NFSv4) server could return a crafted reply to a GETACL request, causing a denial of service on the client.The rds_ib_xmit function in net/rds/ib_send.c in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel 3.7.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and kernel panic) by establishing an RDS connection with the source IP address equal to the IPoIB interface's own IP address, as demonstrated by rds-ping.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Run yum update kernel to update your system. You will need to reboot your system in order for the new kernel to be running.");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2012-100.html");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-2372", "CVE-2011-1083", "CVE-2011-4131");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.9");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  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:"kernel-tools-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-tools-debuginfo~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-headers", rpm:"kernel-headers~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-tools", rpm:"kernel-tools~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-devel", rpm:"kernel-devel~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-debuginfo~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel", rpm:"kernel~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-doc", rpm:"kernel-doc~3.2.22~35.60.amzn1", rls:"AMAZON"))) {
    report += res;
  }

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

exit(0);