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HistoryFeb 26, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-1508-1 : diatheke - insufficient input sanitising

2008-02-2600:00:00
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10

7.5 High

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

0.015 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.2%

Dan Dennison discovered that Diatheke, a CGI program to make a bible website, performs insufficient sanitising of a parameter, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands as the web server user.

#%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-1508. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(31169);
  script_version("1.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-0932");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1508");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1508-1 : diatheke - insufficient input sanitising");
  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:
"Dan Dennison discovered that Diatheke, a CGI program to make a bible
website, performs insufficient sanitising of a parameter, allowing a
remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands as the web server
user."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466449"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1508"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the diatheke package.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.5.7-7sarge1.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.9-2etch1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_cwe_id(20);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:diatheke");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/02/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/02/26");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 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:"3.1", prefix:"diatheke", reference:"1.5.7-7sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsword-dev", reference:"1.5.7-7sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"libsword4", reference:"1.5.7-7sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"diatheke", reference:"1.5.9-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libsword-dev", reference:"1.5.9-2etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"libsword6", reference:"1.5.9-2etch1")) 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");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linuxdiathekep-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:diatheke
debiandebian_linux3.1cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1
debiandebian_linux4.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

7.5 High

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

0.015 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.2%