| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| redhat | www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2017-May/msg00029.html |
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871815");
script_version("2024-03-21T05:06:54+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-03-21 05:06:54 +0000 (Thu, 21 Mar 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-05-22 06:52:01 +0200 (Mon, 22 May 2017)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-8779");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-03 00:03:00 +0000 (Thu, 03 Oct 2019)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("RedHat Update for libtirpc RHSA-2017:1263-01");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'libtirpc'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The libtirpc packages contain SunLib's
implementation of transport-independent remote procedure call (TI-RPC) documentation,
which includes a library required by programs in the nfs-utils and rpcbind
packages.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc (libntirpc), a
memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An
attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory
usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be terminated by the
OOM killer. (CVE-2017-8779)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"libtirpc on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please Install the Updated Packages.");
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2017:1263-01");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2017-May/msg00029.html");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/rhel", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=RHENT_7");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release) exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "RHENT_7")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libtirpc", rpm:"libtirpc~0.2.4~0.8.el7_3", rls:"RHENT_7")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libtirpc-debuginfo", rpm:"libtirpc-debuginfo~0.2.4~0.8.el7_3", rls:"RHENT_7")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}
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