5 Medium
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
0.016 Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.3%
D. J. Bernstein reports that Bartlomiej Sieka has discovered several security vulnerabilities in lppasswd, which is part of CUPS. In the following excerpt from Bernstein’s email, CVE names have been added for each issue :
First, lppasswd blithely ignores write errors in fputs(line,outfile) at lines 311 and 315 of lppasswd.c, and in fprintf(…) at line 346.
An attacker who fills up the disk at the right moment can arrange for /usr/local/etc/cups/passwd to be truncated. (CAN-2004-1268)
Second, if lppasswd bumps into a file-size resource limit while writing passwd.new, it leaves passwd.new in place, disabling all subsequent invocations of lppasswd. Any local user can thus disable lppasswd… (CAN-2004-1269)
Third, line 306 of lppasswd.c prints an error message to stderr but does not exit. This is not a problem on systems that ensure that file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are open for setuid programs, but it is a problem on other systems; lppasswd does not check that passwd.new is different from stderr, so it ends up writing a user-controlled error message to passwd if the user closes file descriptor 2.
(CAN-2004-1270)
Note: The third issue, CVE-2004-1270, does not affect FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE or later systems, as these systems ensure that the file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are always open for set-user-ID and set-group-ID programs.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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# EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(18990);
script_version("1.24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-1268", "CVE-2004-1269", "CVE-2004-1270");
script_bugtraq_id(12004, 12007);
script_name(english:"FreeBSD : cups-lpr -- lppasswd multiple vulnerabilities (7850a238-680a-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)");
script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"D. J. Bernstein reports that Bartlomiej Sieka has discovered several
security vulnerabilities in lppasswd, which is part of CUPS. In the
following excerpt from Bernstein's email, CVE names have been added
for each issue :
First, lppasswd blithely ignores write errors in fputs(line,outfile)
at lines 311 and 315 of lppasswd.c, and in fprintf(...) at line 346.
An attacker who fills up the disk at the right moment can arrange for
/usr/local/etc/cups/passwd to be truncated. (CAN-2004-1268)
Second, if lppasswd bumps into a file-size resource limit while
writing passwd.new, it leaves passwd.new in place, disabling all
subsequent invocations of lppasswd. Any local user can thus disable
lppasswd... (CAN-2004-1269)
Third, line 306 of lppasswd.c prints an error message to stderr but
does not exit. This is not a problem on systems that ensure that file
descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are open for setuid programs, but it is a
problem on other systems; lppasswd does not check that passwd.new is
different from stderr, so it ends up writing a user-controlled error
message to passwd if the user closes file descriptor 2.
(CAN-2004-1270)
Note: The third issue, CVE-2004-1270, does not affect FreeBSD
4.6-RELEASE or later systems, as these systems ensure that the file
descriptors 0, 1, and 2 are always open for set-user-ID and
set-group-ID programs."
);
# http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1023
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/1023"
);
# http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/cups2.txt
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?afff57c3"
);
# https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/7850a238-680a-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?3566bddf"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
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:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:cups-lpr");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:fr-cups-lpr");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/12/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/01/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"cups-lpr<1.1.23")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"fr-cups-lpr<1.1.23")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");