CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
85.9%
rsyslog ignored the $AllowedSender configuration directive, therefore accepting log messages from anyone (CVE-2008-5617).
Additionally imudp logged a message when unauthorized senders tried to send to it, therefore allowing attackers to flood the log CVE-2008-5618).
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update rsyslog-392.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(40305);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5617", "CVE-2008-5618");
script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : rsyslog (rsyslog-392)");
script_summary(english:"Check for the rsyslog-392 patch");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"rsyslog ignored the $AllowedSender configuration directive, therefore
accepting log messages from anyone (CVE-2008-5617).
Additionally imudp logged a message when unauthorized senders tried to
send to it, therefore allowing attackers to flood the log
CVE-2008-5618)."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457273"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected rsyslog package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C");
script_cwe_id(264);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:rsyslog");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/21");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.1", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
flag = 0;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.1", reference:"rsyslog-3.18.3-4.33.1") ) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "rsyslog");
}