The 'procmail' package on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 17.04, and 17.10 is affected by a vulnerability (CVE-2017-16844). An update is available
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 61 |
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Tenable Nessus | FreeBSD : procmail -- Heap-based buffer overflow (288f7cee-ced6-11e7-8ae9-0050569f0b83) | 22 Nov 201700:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 5 : procmail (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Photon OS 1.0: Procmail PHSA-2017-0052 | 22 Jul 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 6 : procmail (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 11 May 202400:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : procmail on SL7.x x86_64 (20171129) | 30 Nov 201700:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : procmail vulnerability (USN-3483-1) | 21 Nov 201700:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : procmail (EulerOS-SA-2017-1317) | 1 Dec 201700:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Amazon Linux AMI : procmail (ALAS-2018-1084) | 20 Sep 201800:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | NewStart CGSL MAIN 5.04 : procmail Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0005) | 12 Aug 201900:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : procmail (SUSE-SU-2018:0173-1) | 23 Jan 201800:00 | – | nessus |
Source | Link |
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ubuntu | www.ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3483-1 |
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.843367");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-16844");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-11-21 06:31:00 +0000 (Tue, 21 Nov 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:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-12-02 12:59:45 +0000 (Sat, 02 Dec 2017)");
script_name("Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3483-1)");
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|17\.10)");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"USN-3483-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3483-1");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'procmail' package(s) announced via the USN-3483-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Jakub Wilk discovered that the formail tool incorrectly handled certain
malformed mail messages. An attacker could use this flaw to cause formail
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'procmail' package(s) on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10.");
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:"procmail", ver:"3.22-21ubuntu0.2", 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:"procmail", ver:"3.22-25ubuntu0.16.04.1", 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:"procmail", ver:"3.22-25ubuntu0.17.04.1", rls:"UBUNTU17.04"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
if(release == "UBUNTU17.10") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"procmail", ver:"3.22-25ubuntu0.17.10.1", rls:"UBUNTU17.10"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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