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HistoryMar 07, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1731-1 (ndiswrapper)

2009-03-0700:00:00
Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
plugins.openvas.org
12

0.055 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.4%

The remote host is missing an update to ndiswrapper
announced via advisory DSA 1731-1.

# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_1731_1.nasl 6615 2017-07-07 12:09:52Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1731-1 (ndiswrapper)
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# or at your option, GNU General Public License version 3,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "Anders Kaseorg discovered that ndiswrapper suffers from buffer overflows
via specially crafted wireless network traffic, due to incorrectly
handling long ESSIDs. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary
code.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.28-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.53-2, which was already included in the lenny release.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.53-2.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to ndiswrapper
announced via advisory DSA 1731-1.";

tag_solution = "https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201731-1";


if(description)
{
 script_id(63498);
 script_version("$Revision: 6615 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:09:52 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-03-07 21:47:03 +0100 (Sat, 07 Mar 2009)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2008-4395");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"8.3");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
 script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 1731-1 (ndiswrapper)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ndiswrapper-common", ver:"1.28-1+etch1", rls:"DEB4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ndiswrapper-source", ver:"1.28-1+etch1", rls:"DEB4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ndiswrapper-utils-1.9", ver:"1.28-1+etch1", rls:"DEB4.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}