CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
92.5%
Edward Shornock discovered a bug in the UIDL handling code of fetchmail, a common POP3, APOP and IMAP mail fetching utility. A malicious POP3 server could exploit this problem and inject arbitrary code that will be executed on the victim host. If fetchmail is running as root, this becomes a root exploit.
#%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-774. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(19430);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2335");
script_bugtraq_id(14349);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"774");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-774-1 : fetchmail - buffer overflow");
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:
"Edward Shornock discovered a bug in the UIDL handling code of
fetchmail, a common POP3, APOP and IMAP mail fetching utility. A
malicious POP3 server could exploit this problem and inject arbitrary
code that will be executed on the victim host. If fetchmail is running
as root, this becomes a root exploit."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=212762"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-774"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the fetchmail package.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.5-12sarge1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
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:fetchmail");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/08/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/07/20");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 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:"3.1", prefix:"fetchmail", reference:"6.2.5-12sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"fetchmail-ssl", reference:"6.2.5-12sarge1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.1", prefix:"fetchmailconf", reference:"6.2.5-12sarge1")) 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");