The remote CVS server, according to its version number, might allow an
attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system because of a flaw relating to malformed Entry
lines which lead to a missing NULL terminator.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 David Maciejak
# 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
CPE = "cpe:/a:cvs:cvs";
# Ref:
# Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:00:04 +0200
# From: Stefan Esser <[email protected]>
# To: [email protected], [email protected],
# [email protected], [email protected]
# Subject: Advisory 09/2004: More CVS remote vulnerabilities
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.12265");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10499");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0414", "CVE-2004-0416", "CVE-2004-0417", "CVE-2004-0418");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"RHSA-2004:233-017");
script_name("CVS malformed entry lines flaw");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("cvspserver_version.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("cvspserver/detected");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to CVS 1.12.9 or 1.11.17.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote CVS server, according to its version number, might allow an
attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system because of a flaw relating to malformed Entry
lines which lead to a missing NULL terminator.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Among the issues deemed likely to be exploitable were:
- a double-free relating to the error_prog_name string (CVE-2004-0416)
- an argument integer overflow (CVE-2004-0417)
- out-of-bounds writes in serv_notify (CVE-2004-0418)");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) ) exit( 0 );
if( ! vers = get_app_version( cpe:CPE, port:port ) ) exit( 0 );
if( version_is_less( version:vers, test_version:"1.11.17" ) ||
version_in_range( version:vers, test_version:"1.12", test_version2:"1.12.8" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"1.11.17/1.12.9" );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
}
exit( 0 );