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Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-696-1)

🗓️ 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AGType 
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The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-696-1 advisory. Paul Szabo discovered a vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, allowing a different user to exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in the directory tree

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# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53525");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0448");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 21:56:38 +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:"1.2");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-696-1)");
  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-696-1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2005/DSA-696-1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-696");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'perl' package(s) announced via the DSA-696-1 advisory.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the File::Path::rmtree function of perl, the popular scripting language. When a process is deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had write permissions in any subdirectory of that tree.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.1-8.9.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 5.8.4-8.

We recommend that you upgrade your perl packages.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'perl' 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:"libcgi-fast-perl", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libperl-dev", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libperl5.6", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-base", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-debug", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-doc", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-modules", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", rls:"DEB3.0"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"perl-suid", ver:"5.6.1-8.9", 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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17 Jan 2008 00:00Current
6.6Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.6
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