Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the shadow suite. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2016-6252
An integer overflow vulnerability was discovered, potentially
allowing a local user to escalate privileges via crafted input to
the newuidmap utility.
CVE-2017-2616
Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that su does not properly handle
clearing a child PID. A local attacker can take advantage of this
flaw to send SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges,
resulting in denial of service.
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_3793.nasl 14275 2019-03-18 14:39:45Z cfischer $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3793-1 using nvtgen 1.0
# Script version: 1.0
#
# Author:
# Greenbone Networks
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
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#
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703793");
script_version("$Revision: 14275 $");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6252", "CVE-2017-2616");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 3793-1 (shadow - security update)");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2019-03-18 15:39:45 +0100 (Mon, 18 Mar 2019) $");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-02-24 00:00:00 +0100 (Fri, 24 Feb 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.7");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
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=DEB8");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"shadow on Debian Linux");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:4.2-3+deb8u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your shadow packages.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the shadow suite. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2016-6252
An integer overflow vulnerability was discovered, potentially
allowing a local user to escalate privileges via crafted input to
the newuidmap utility.
CVE-2017-2616
Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that su does not properly handle
clearing a child PID. A local attacker can take advantage of this
flaw to send SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges,
resulting in denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"login", ver:"1:4.2-3+deb8u3", rls:"DEB8")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"passwd", ver:"1:4.2-3+deb8u3", rls:"DEB8")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"uidmap", ver:"1:4.2-3+deb8u3", rls:"DEB8")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}