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HistoryJun 01, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

Fedora Core 6 : mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6 (2007-539)

2007-06-0100:00:00
This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
www.tenable.com
15

CVSS2

3.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.088

Percentile

94.6%

This update fixes two security issues :

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. (CVE-2007-1558)

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via ‘&’ characters in the GECOS field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion. (CVE-2007-2683)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 Fedora Security Advisory 2007-539.
#

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

if (description)
{
  script_id(25357);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-539");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 6 : mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6 (2007-539)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update fixes two security issues :

The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3
characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use
crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. (CVE-2007-1558)

Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute
arbitrary code via '&' characters in the GECOS field, which triggers
the overflow during alias expansion. (CVE-2007-2683)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-May/001756.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?fa34fbc0"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected mutt and / or mutt-debuginfo packages."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mutt-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/05/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/06/01");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 6.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC6", reference:"mutt-1.4.2.3-1.fc6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC6", reference:"mutt-debuginfo-1.4.2.3-1.fc6")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "mutt / mutt-debuginfo");
}

CVSS2

3.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.088

Percentile

94.6%