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Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-627)

🗓️ 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AGType 
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The 'perl-IPTables-Parse' package in Amazon Linux is missing the update announced in ALAS-2015-627, allowing attackers to set up symlinks to overwrite any file the current user has write access to

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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.120617");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8326");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2015-12-15 00:51:28 +0000 (Tue, 15 Dec 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:"3.6");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-06-14 16:15:00 +0000 (Wed, 14 Jun 2017)");

  script_name("Amazon Linux: Security Advisory (ALAS-2015-627)");
  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-2015-627");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-627.html");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'perl-IPTables-Parse' package(s) announced via the ALAS-2015-627 advisory.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A vulnerability in perl-IPTables-Parse was found, when using predictable file names for its temporary files. This vulnerability allows attacker on a multi-user system to set up symlinks to overwrite any file the current user has write access to.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'perl-IPTables-Parse' 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:"perl-IPTables-Parse", rpm:"perl-IPTables-Parse~1.5~2.3.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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