CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
90.4%
It was discovered that APT, the high level package manager, does not properly invalidate unauthenticated data (CVE-2014-0488), performs incorrect verification of 304 replies (CVE-2014-0487) and does not perform the checksum check when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is used (CVE-2014-0489).
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-53-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(82200);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-0487", "CVE-2014-0488", "CVE-2014-0489");
script_bugtraq_id(69835, 69836, 69838, 74111);
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-53-1 : apt 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:
"It was discovered that APT, the high level package manager, does not
properly invalidate unauthenticated data (CVE-2014-0488), performs
incorrect verification of 304 replies (CVE-2014-0487) and does not
perform the checksum check when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is
used (CVE-2014-0489).
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/2014/09/msg00010.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/apt"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/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:apt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt-transport-https");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt-utils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapt-pkg-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapt-pkg-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/09/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/26");
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:"apt", reference:"0.8.10.3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"apt-doc", reference:"0.8.10.3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"apt-transport-https", reference:"0.8.10.3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"apt-utils", reference:"0.8.10.3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libapt-pkg-dev", reference:"0.8.10.3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libapt-pkg-doc", reference:"0.8.10.3+squeeze3")) 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");