CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
94.3%
Updated vte packages fix security vulnerability :
A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted file, which once opened in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to excessive CPU consumption (CVE-2012-2738).
#%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-2013:135.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(66147);
script_version("1.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-2738");
script_bugtraq_id(54281);
script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2013:135");
script_xref(name:"MGASA", value:"2012-0163");
script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : vte (MDVSA-2013:135)");
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:
"Updated vte packages fix security vulnerability :
A denial of service flaw was found in the way VTE, a terminal emulator
widget, processed certain escape sequences with large repeat counts. A
remote attacker could provide a specially crafted file, which once
opened in a terminal using the VTE terminal emulator could lead to
excessive CPU consumption (CVE-2012-2738)."
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:ND");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64vte-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64vte-gir0.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64vte9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:python-vte");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:vte");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/04/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/04/20");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 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:"MDK-MBS1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64vte-devel-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64vte-gir0.0-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64vte9-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"python-vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"vte-0.28.2-5.1.mbs1")) 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");