CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
48.9%
A vulnerability was discovered by zen-parse and Pedram Amini in the sendmail MTA. They found two ways to exploit smrsh, an application intended as a replacement for the sh shell for use with sendmail; the first by inserting specially formatted commands in the ~/.forward file and secondly by calling smrsh directly with special options. These can be exploited to give users with no shell account, or those not permitted to execute certain programs or commands, the ability to bypass these restrictions.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2002:083.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(13981);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1165");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2002:083");
script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2002:083)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A vulnerability was discovered by zen-parse and Pedram Amini in the
sendmail MTA. They found two ways to exploit smrsh, an application
intended as a replacement for the sh shell for use with sendmail; the
first by inserting specially formatted commands in the ~/.forward file
and secondly by calling smrsh directly with special options. These can
be exploited to give users with no shell account, or those not
permitted to execute certain programs or commands, the ability to
bypass these restrictions."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/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:mandriva:linux:sendmail");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-cf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:sendmail-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:7.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:8.2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2002/11/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/07/31");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK7.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-8.11.0-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK7.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.11.0-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK7.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.11.0-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-8.11.6-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.11.6-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.11.6-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-8.11.6-4.2mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.11.6-4.2mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.11.6-4.2mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-8.12.1-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.12.1-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-devel-8.12.1-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK8.2", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.12.1-4.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-8.12.6-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-cf-8.12.6-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-devel-8.12.6-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"sendmail-doc-8.12.6-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");