CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
94.3%
Steve Fosdick discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in fetchmail. When using fetchmail in ‘multidrop’ mode, a malicious email server could cause a crash by sending an email without any headers.
Since fetchmail is commonly called automatically (with cron, for example), this crash could go unnoticed.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-233-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(20777);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-4348");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"233-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : fetchmail vulnerability (USN-233-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Steve Fosdick discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in
fetchmail. When using fetchmail in 'multidrop' mode, a malicious email
server could cause a crash by sending an email without any headers.
Since fetchmail is commonly called automatically (with cron, for
example), this crash could go unnoticed.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected fetchmail, fetchmail-ssl and / or fetchmailconf
packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fetchmail");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fetchmail-ssl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fetchmailconf");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/01/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/21");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2006-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(4\.10|5\.04|5\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"fetchmail", pkgver:"6.2.5-12ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"fetchmail-ssl", pkgver:"6.2.5-12ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"fetchmailconf", pkgver:"6.2.5-12ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"fetchmail", pkgver:"6.2.5-8ubuntu2.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"fetchmailconf", pkgver:"6.2.5-8ubuntu2.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"fetchmail", pkgver:"6.2.5-13ubuntu3.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"fetchmail-ssl", pkgver:"6.2.5-13ubuntu3.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"fetchmailconf", pkgver:"6.2.5-13ubuntu3.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "fetchmail / fetchmail-ssl / fetchmailconf");
}