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Oracle Linux 6 : glibc (ELSA-2014-1391)

2014-10-1700:00:00
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6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.032 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.2%

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2014:1391 :

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the Name Server Caching Daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function correctly.

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way the glibc’s readdir_r() function handled file system entries longer than the NAME_MAX character constant. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted NTFS or CIFS file system that, when processed by an application using readdir_r(), would cause that application to crash or, potentially, allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-4237)

It was found that getaddrinfo() did not limit the amount of stack memory used during name resolution. An attacker able to make an application resolve an attacker-controlled hostname or IP address could possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack memory and crash. (CVE-2013-4458)

These updated glibc packages also include several bug fixes and two enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Technical Notes, linked to in the References section, for information on the most significant of these changes.

All glibc users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2014:1391 and 
# Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2014-1391 respectively.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(78524);
  script_version("1.13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4237", "CVE-2013-4458");
  script_bugtraq_id(61729, 63299, 68505, 68983);
  script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2014:1391");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 6 : glibc (ELSA-2014-1391)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"From Red Hat Security Advisory 2014:1391 :

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and
add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate
security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each
vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The glibc packages provide the standard C libraries (libc), POSIX
thread libraries (libpthread), standard math libraries (libm), and the
Name Server Caching Daemon (nscd) used by multiple programs on the
system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function
correctly.

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way the glibc's
readdir_r() function handled file system entries longer than the
NAME_MAX character constant. A remote attacker could provide a
specially crafted NTFS or CIFS file system that, when processed by an
application using readdir_r(), would cause that application to crash
or, potentially, allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-4237)

It was found that getaddrinfo() did not limit the amount of stack
memory used during name resolution. An attacker able to make an
application resolve an attacker-controlled hostname or IP address
could possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack memory and
crash. (CVE-2013-4458)

These updated glibc packages also include several bug fixes and two
enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this
advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
Technical Notes, linked to in the References section, for information
on the most significant of these changes.

All glibc users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these
enhancements."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2014-October/004526.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected glibc packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  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:oracle:linux:glibc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-headers");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-static");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nscd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/10/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/10/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/10/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Oracle Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/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/OracleLinux")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Oracle Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Oracle Linux 6", "Oracle Linux " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Oracle Linux", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"glibc-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"glibc-common-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"glibc-devel-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"glibc-headers-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"glibc-static-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"glibc-utils-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"EL6", reference:"nscd-2.12-1.149.el6")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / glibc-static / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinuxglibcp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc
oraclelinuxglibc-commonp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-common
oraclelinuxglibc-develp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-devel
oraclelinuxglibc-headersp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-headers
oraclelinuxglibc-staticp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-static
oraclelinuxglibc-utilsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:glibc-utils
oraclelinuxnscdp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:nscd
oraclelinux6cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.032 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.2%