CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
When exectuting external programs postfix didn’t close the file descriptor of the epoll system call. This could potentially be exploited to shutdown postfix (CVE-2008-3889).
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from openSUSE Security Update postfix-5603.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(34240);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-3889");
script_name(english:"openSUSE 10 Security Update : postfix (postfix-5603)");
script_summary(english:"Check for the postfix-5603 patch");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"When exectuting external programs postfix didn't close the file
descriptor of the epoll system call. This could potentially be
exploited to shutdown postfix (CVE-2008-3889)."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected postfix packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cwe_id(20);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postfix");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postfix-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postfix-mysql");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postfix-postgresql");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/09/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/09/18");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 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 !~ "^(SUSE10\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "10.3", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
flag = 0;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"postfix-2.4.5-20.6") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"postfix-devel-2.4.5-20.6") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"postfix-mysql-2.4.5-20.6") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.3", reference:"postfix-postgresql-2.4.5-20.6") ) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_note(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "postfix / postfix-devel / postfix-mysql / postfix-postgresql");
}