9 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.166 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.0%
Yannick Van Osselaer discovered a stack overflow in Xsupplicant, which could potentially be exploited by a remote, authenticated user to gain root priviledges. Additional code cleanups to fix potential memory leaks are also included.
Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
#%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-2006:189.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(24574);
script_version("1.16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-5601", "CVE-2006-5602");
script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2006:189");
script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xsupplicant (MDKSA-2006:189)");
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:
"Yannick Van Osselaer discovered a stack overflow in Xsupplicant, which
could potentially be exploited by a remote, authenticated user to gain
root priviledges. Additional code cleanups to fix potential memory
leaks are also included.
Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected xsupplicant, xsupplicant-devel and / or
xsupplicant-doc packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xsupplicant");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xsupplicant-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xsupplicant-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2006");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2007");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/10/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/02/18");
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:"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:"MDK2006.0", reference:"xsupplicant-1.0.1-3.1.20060mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2006.0", reference:"xsupplicant-doc-1.0.1-3.1.20060mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2007.0", reference:"xsupplicant-1.2.6-1.1mdv2007.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2007.0", reference:"xsupplicant-devel-1.2.6-1.1mdv2007.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2007.0", reference:"xsupplicant-doc-1.2.6-1.1mdv2007.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
mandriva | linux | xsupplicant | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xsupplicant |
mandriva | linux | xsupplicant-devel | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xsupplicant-devel |
mandriva | linux | xsupplicant-doc | p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:xsupplicant-doc |
mandriva | linux | 2006 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2006 |
mandriva | linux | 2007 | cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2007 |