CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
74.2%
A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pam :
Integer signedness error in the _pam_StrTok function in libpam/pam_misc.c in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.0.3 and earlier, when a configuration file contains non-ASCII usernames, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and might allow remote authenticated users to obtain login access with a different user’s non-ASCII username, via a login attempt (CVE-2009-0887).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Additionally some development packages were missing that are required to build pam for CS4, these are also provided with this update.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:077.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(36591);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0887");
script_bugtraq_id(34010);
script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2009:077");
script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDVSA-2009:077)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pam :
Integer signedness error in the _pam_StrTok function in
libpam/pam_misc.c in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.0.3 and earlier, when a
configuration file contains non-ASCII usernames, might allow remote
attackers to cause a denial of service, and might allow remote
authenticated users to obtain login access with a different user's
non-ASCII username, via a login attempt (CVE-2009-0887).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Additionally some development packages were missing that are required
to build pam for CS4, these are also provided with this update."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_cwe_id(189);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64pam-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64pam0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpam-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpam0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pam");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pam-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/03/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 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:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64pam-devel-0.99.8.1-6.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64pam0-0.99.8.1-6.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpam-devel-0.99.8.1-6.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpam0-0.99.8.1-6.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"pam-0.99.8.1-6.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.0", reference:"pam-doc-0.99.8.1-6.1mdv2008.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64pam-devel-0.99.8.1-8.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64pam0-0.99.8.1-8.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpam-devel-0.99.8.1-8.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpam0-0.99.8.1-8.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pam-0.99.8.1-8.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pam-doc-0.99.8.1-8.1mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64pam-devel-0.99.8.1-16.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64pam0-0.99.8.1-16.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpam-devel-0.99.8.1-16.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpam0-0.99.8.1-16.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pam-0.99.8.1-16.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pam-doc-0.99.8.1-16.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) 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");