CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
Low
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-16 (GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability)
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Coreutils split program that can lead to a heap buffer overflow and possibly arbitrary code execution.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
#
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# @NOAGENT@
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202407-16.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2021 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(201912);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/07/05");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-0684");
script_name(english:"GLSA-202407-16 : GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-16 (GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability)
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Coreutils split program that can lead to a heap buffer
overflow and possibly arbitrary code execution.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202407-16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922474");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"All Coreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-apps/coreutils-9.4-r1");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-0684");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/01/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/07/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2024/07/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:coreutils");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list");
exit(0);
}
include('qpkg.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/Gentoo/release')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Gentoo');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var flag = 0;
var packages = [
{
'name' : 'sys-apps/coreutils',
'unaffected' : make_list("ge 9.4-r1"),
'vulnerable' : make_list("lt 9.4-r1")
}
];
foreach var package( packages ) {
if (isnull(package['unaffected'])) package['unaffected'] = make_list();
if (isnull(package['vulnerable'])) package['vulnerable'] = make_list();
if (qpkg_check(package: package['name'] , unaffected: package['unaffected'], vulnerable: package['vulnerable'])) flag++;
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : qpkg_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
qpkg_tests = list_uniq(qpkg_tests);
var tested = qpkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'GNU Coreutils');
}