CentOS Update for rpcbind CESA-2017:1267 centos6
🗓️ 24 May 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType
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# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882722");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-05-24 06:53:04 +0200 (Wed, 24 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("CentOS Update for rpcbind CESA-2017:1267 centos6");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Check the version of rpcbind");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The rpcbind utility is a server that
converts Remote Procedure Call (RPC) program numbers into universal addresses.
It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that
machine. 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:"rpcbind on CentOS 6");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please Install the Updated Packages.");
script_xref(name:"CESA", value:"2017:1267");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2017-May/022417.html");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_family("CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/centos", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=CentOS6");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "CentOS6")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"rpcbind", rpm:"rpcbind~0.2.0~13.el6_9", rls:"CentOS6")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}Data
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