4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
30.4%
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55233");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2496");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 22:03:37 +0000 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_version("2024-02-01T14:37:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-01 14:37:10 +0000 (Thu, 01 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-801-1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=DEB3\.1");
script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"DSA-801-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2005/DSA-801-1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-801");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ntp' package(s) announced via the DSA-801-1 advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"SuSE developers discovered that ntp confuses the given group id with the group id of the given user when called with a group id on the commandline that is specified as a string and not as a numeric gid, which causes ntpd to run with different privileges than intended.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1.
The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by this problem.
We recommend that you upgrade your ntp-server package.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'ntp' package(s) on Debian 3.1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "DEB3.1") {
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ntp", ver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ntp-doc", ver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ntp-refclock", ver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ntp-server", ver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ntp-simple", ver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"ntpdate", ver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1", rls:"DEB3.1"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);