CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
87.2%
Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet discovered multiple issues in libxfont’s code to process BDF fonts, which might result in privilege escalation.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-183-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(82300);
script_version("1.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2015-1802", "CVE-2015-1803", "CVE-2015-1804");
script_bugtraq_id(73277, 73279, 73280);
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-183-1 : libxfont security update");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Ilja van Sprundel, Alan Coopersmith and William Robinet discovered
multiple issues in libxfont's code to process BDF fonts, which might
result in privilege escalation.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00020.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/libxfont"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont1-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont1-udeb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/03/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/30");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxfont-dev", reference:"1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxfont1", reference:"1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxfont1-dbg", reference:"1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxfont1-udeb", reference:"1:1.4.1-5+deb6u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | libxfont-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont-dev |
debian | debian_linux | libxfont1 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont1 |
debian | debian_linux | libxfont1-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont1-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | libxfont1-udeb | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libxfont1-udeb |
debian | debian_linux | 6.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0 |