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%
A buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail’s POP3 client which could allow a malicious server to send a carefully crafted message UID, causing fetchmail to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user running fetchmail.
The updated packages have been patched to address this problem.
#%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-2005:126.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(19887);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2335");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2005:126");
script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fetchmail (MDKSA-2005:126)");
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 buffer overflow was discovered in fetchmail's POP3 client which
could allow a malicious server to send a carefully crafted message
UID, causing fetchmail to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code
as the user running fetchmail.
The updated packages have been patched to address this problem."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected fetchmail, fetchmail-daemon and / or fetchmailconf
packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:fetchmail");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:fetchmail-daemon");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:fetchmailconf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:le2005");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/07/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/10/05");
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:"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:"MDK10.1", reference:"fetchmail-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.1", reference:"fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.1", reference:"fetchmailconf-6.2.5-5.1.101mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.2", reference:"fetchmail-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.2", reference:"fetchmail-daemon-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK10.2", reference:"fetchmailconf-6.2.5-10.1.102mdk", 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");