The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libmcrypt' package(s) announced via the DSA-228 advisory. It is affected by buffer overflows and memory exhaustion attacks
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 19 |
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![]() | FreeBSD : Buffer overflows in libmcrypt (c4b7badf-24ca-11d8-82e5-0020ed76ef5a) | 23 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | SUSE-SA:2003:0010: libmcrypt | 25 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-228-1 : libmcrypt - buffer overflows and memory leak | 29 Sep 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | FreeBSD : Buffer overflows in libmcrypt (92) | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: libmcrypt | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian Security Advisory DSA 228-1 (libmcrypt) | 17 Jan 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: libmcrypt | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Buffer overflows in libmcrypt | 25 Oct 200300:00 | – | freebsd |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 228-1] New libmcrypt packages fix buffer overflows and memory leak | 14 Jan 200315:37 | – | debian |
![]() | [SECURITY] [DSA 228-1] New libmcrypt packages fix buffer overflows and memory leak | 14 Jan 200315:37 | – | debian |
Source | Link |
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security-tracker | www.security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-228 |
debian | www.debian.org/security/2003/DSA-228 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53310");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0031", "CVE-2003-0032");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 21:28:10 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_version("2024-02-01T14:37:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-01 14:37:10 +0000 (Thu, 01 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-228)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.0");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-228");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2003/DSA-228");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-228");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libmcrypt' package(s) announced via the DSA-228 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Ilia Alshanetsky discovered several buffer overflows in libmcrypt, a decryption and encryption library, that originates from improper or lacking input validation. By passing input which is longer than expected to a number of functions (multiple functions are affected) the user can successfully make libmcrypt crash and may be able to insert arbitrary, malicious code which will be executed under the user libmcrypt runs as, e.g. inside a web server.
Another vulnerability exists in the way libmcrypt loads algorithms via libtool. When different algorithms are loaded dynamically, each time an algorithm is loaded a small part of memory is leaked. In a persistent environment (web server) this could lead to a memory exhaustion attack that will exhaust all available memory by launching repeated requests at an application utilizing the mcrypt library.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.0-1woody1.
The old stable distribution (potato) does not contain libmcrypt packages.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libmcrypt packages.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'libmcrypt' package(s) on Debian 3.0.");
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-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB3.0") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libmcrypt-dev", ver:"2.5.0-1woody1", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libmcrypt4", ver:"2.5.0-1woody1", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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