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Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4056898)

🗓️ 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType 
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This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4056898. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Microsoft Windows, allowing arbitrary code execution and control of affected systems

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.812386");
  script_version("2023-11-03T16:10:08+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-5753", "CVE-2017-5715", "CVE-2017-5754", "CVE-2018-0744",
                "CVE-2018-0753", "CVE-2018-0754", "CVE-2018-0788", "CVE-2018-0752",
                "CVE-2018-0751", "CVE-2018-0749", "CVE-2018-0747", "CVE-2018-0748",
                "CVE-2018-0746");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.1");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-11-03 16:10:08 +0000 (Fri, 03 Nov 2023)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-24 17:37:00 +0000 (Mon, 24 Aug 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-01-04 16:27:57 +0530 (Thu, 04 Jan 2018)");
  script_name("Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4056898)");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"This host is missing an important security
  update according to Microsoft KB4056898");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist due to:

  - Multiple errors in Windows Adobe Type Manager Font Driver (ATMFD.dll) when
    it fails to properly handle objects in memory.

  - An error in the way that Windows handles objects in memory.

  - Multiple errors in the way that the Windows Kernel API enforces permissions.

  - An error in the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Server when an attacker
    with valid credentials attempts to open a specially crafted file over the SMB
    protocol on the same machine.

  - Multiple errors in the Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve
    information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization
    (ASLR) bypass.

  - Multiple errors leading to 'speculative execution side-channel attacks' that
    affect many modern processors and operating systems including Intel, AMD, and ARM.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow an attacker
  to execute arbitrary code and take control of an affected system, gain access to
  sensitive data, cause a target system to stop responding, impersonate processes,
  interject cross-process communication, interrupt system functionality, bypass
  certain security checks and conduct bounds check bypass, branch target injection,
  rogue data cache load.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"- Microsoft Windows 8.1 for 32-bit/x64

  - Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4056898");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Windows : Microsoft Bulletins");
  script_dependencies("smb_reg_service_pack.nasl");
  script_require_ports(139, 445);
  script_mandatory_keys("SMB/WindowsVersion");

  exit(0);
}

include("smb_nt.inc");
include("secpod_reg.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
include("secpod_smb_func.inc");

if(hotfix_check_sp(win8_1:1, win8_1x64:1, win2012R2:1) <= 0){
  exit(0);
}

sysPath = smb_get_system32root();
if(!sysPath ){
  exit(0);
}

fileVer = fetch_file_version(sysPath:sysPath, file_name:"ntoskrnl.exe");
if(!fileVer){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_is_less(version:fileVer, test_version:"6.3.9600.18895"))
{
  report = report_fixed_ver( file_checked:sysPath + "\Ntoskrnl.exe",
                             file_version:fileVer, vulnerable_range:"Less than 6.3.9600.18895" );
  security_message(data:report);
  exit(0);
}
exit(0);

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