CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
This update of puppet fixes two vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited by local attackers to escalate privileges due to improper privilege dropping and file handling issues (symlink flaws) in puppet.
(CVE-2012-1053 / CVE-2012-1054)
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is
# copyright (C) Novell, Inc.
#
if (NASL_LEVEL < 3000) exit(0);
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(58203);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1053", "CVE-2012-1054");
script_name(english:"SuSE 11.1 Security Update : puppet (SAT Patch Number 5876)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"This update of puppet fixes two vulnerabilities that could potentially
be exploited by local attackers to escalate privileges due to improper
privilege dropping and file handling issues (symlink flaws) in puppet.
(CVE-2012-1053 / CVE-2012-1054)"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747657"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1053.html"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1054.html"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply SAT patch number 5876.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:puppet");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:puppet-server");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/02/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/03/05");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 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/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/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);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)11") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SuSE 11", cpu);
pl = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(pl) || int(pl) != 1) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SuSE 11.1");
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"i586", reference:"puppet-2.6.12-0.12.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED11", sp:1, cpu:"x86_64", reference:"puppet-2.6.12-0.12.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, reference:"puppet-2.6.12-0.12.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES11", sp:1, reference:"puppet-server-2.6.12-0.12.1")) 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");