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HistoryJun 23, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Debian DSA-1821-1 : amule - insufficient input sanitising

2009-06-2300:00:00
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9

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.015

Percentile

87.2%

Sam Hocevar discovered that amule, a client for the eD2k and Kad networks, does not properly sanitise the filename, when using the preview function. This could lead to the injection of arbitrary commands passed to the video player.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.

#%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-1821. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(39483);
  script_version("1.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1440");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1821");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1821-1 : amule - 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:
"Sam Hocevar discovered that amule, a client for the eD2k and Kad
networks, does not properly sanitise the filename, when using the
preview function. This could lead to the injection of arbitrary
commands passed to the video player.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525078"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1821"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the amule packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-1+lenny2."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:amule");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/06/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/06/23");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 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:"5.0", prefix:"amule", reference:"2.2.1-1+lenny2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"amule-common", reference:"2.2.1-1+lenny2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"amule-daemon", reference:"2.2.1-1+lenny2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"amule-utils", reference:"2.2.1-1+lenny2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"5.0", prefix:"amule-utils-gui", reference:"2.2.1-1+lenny2")) 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");

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.015

Percentile

87.2%