The 'c-ares' package(s) update is missing on the remote host as announced via the USN-3395-1 advisory. It is vulnerable to a denial of service attack
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 94 |
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OpenVAS | Fedora Update for c-ares FEDORA-2017-4932c9b886 | 21 Jul 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for nodejs FEDORA-2017-81522ac6d8 | 25 Jul 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for nodejs FEDORA-2017-aa44293a53 | 25 Jul 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for nodejs FEDORA-2017-7c1621d2e8 | 4 Aug 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for mingw-c-ares FEDORA-2017-05254795cf | 4 Aug 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for mingw-c-ares FEDORA-2017-7c9a5b4791 | 4 Aug 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Fedora Update for c-ares FEDORA-2017-ba1399832b | 29 Jun 201700:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2017-0215) | 28 Jan 202200:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-998-1) | 28 Jan 201800:00 | – | openvas |
OpenVAS | SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:1792-1) | 19 Apr 202100:00 | – | openvas |
Source | Link |
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ubuntu | www.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3395-1 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.843289");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-1000381");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-08-18 05:33:54 +0000 (Fri, 18 Aug 2017)");
script_version("2024-02-02T05:06:06+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-02 05:06:06 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-07-17 15:08:30 +0000 (Mon, 17 Jul 2017)");
script_name("Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3395-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/ubuntu_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=UBUNTU(14\.04\ LTS|16\.04\ LTS|17\.04)");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"USN-3395-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3395-1");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'c-ares' package(s) announced via the USN-3395-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain NAPTR responses.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using
c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'c-ares' package(s) on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04.");
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 == "UBUNTU14.04 LTS") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libc-ares2", ver:"1.10.0-2ubuntu0.2", rls:"UBUNTU14.04 LTS"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU16.04 LTS") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libc-ares2", ver:"1.10.0-3ubuntu0.2", rls:"UBUNTU16.04 LTS"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU17.04") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libc-ares2", ver:"1.12.0-1ubuntu0.1", rls:"UBUNTU17.04"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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