CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
95.0%
Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee AVERT Research discovered that e2fsprogs, the ext2 file system utilities and libraries, contained multiple integer overflows in memory allocations, based on sizes taken directly from filesystem information. These could result in heap-based overflows potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1422. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(29257);
script_version("1.16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5497");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1422");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1422-1 : e2fsprogs - integer overflows");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee AVERT Research discovered that e2fsprogs, the
ext2 file system utilities and libraries, contained multiple integer
overflows in memory allocations, based on sizes taken directly from
filesystem information. These could result in heap-based overflows
potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1422"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the e2fsprogs package.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_cwe_id(189);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:e2fsprogs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/12/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/12/11");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
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:"4.0", prefix:"comerr-dev", reference:"2.1-1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"e2fsck-static", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"e2fslibs", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"e2fslibs-dev", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"e2fsprogs", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libblkid-dev", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libblkid1", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libcomerr2", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libss2", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libuuid1", reference:"1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"ss-dev", reference:"2.0-1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"uuid-dev", reference:"1.2-1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");