Exim 4.87 - 4.96 Use After Free Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:exim:exim";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.127225");
  script_version("2024-01-10T05:05:17+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-01-10 05:05:17 +0000 (Wed, 10 Jan 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-10-19 09:15:11 +0000 (Wed, 19 Oct 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-10-20 12:33:00 +0000 (Thu, 20 Oct 2022)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2022-3559");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

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

  script_name("Exim 4.87 - 4.96 Use After Free Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("General");
  script_dependencies("gb_exim_smtp_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("exim/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Exim is prone to a use after free vulnerability.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The product is prone to a use after free vulnerability in the
  Regex Handler component.

  Vendor changelog entry:

  JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when more than one message
  arrived in a single connection a reference from the earlier message could be re-used. Often a
  sigsegv resulted. These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Exim versions 4.87 through 4.96.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.97 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2915");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/1561c5d88b3a23a4348d8e3c1ce28554fcbcfe46/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog#L33-L37");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if(!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
  exit(0);

if(version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "4.87", test_version2: "4.96")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.97");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);