CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
87.4%
Tcptrack is prone to heap based buffer overflow vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801973");
script_version("2023-07-28T05:05:23+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-28 05:05:23 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-09-13 07:51:43 +0200 (Tue, 13 Sep 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-2903");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("Tcptrack Command Line Parsing Heap Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/293");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49352");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377917");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack/#news");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_tcptrack_detect.nasl");
script_family("Buffer overflow");
script_mandatory_keys("Tcptrack/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long
command line argument in the LWRES dissector when processing malformed data
or packets.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Tcptrack version prior to 1.4.2");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is caused due to error in command line parsing, it is not properly
handling long command line argument.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Tcptrack 1.4.2 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Tcptrack is prone to heap based buffer overflow vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack/#gettingit");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
tcpVer = get_kb_item("Tcptrack/Ver");
if(!tcpVer){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_less(version:tcpVer, test_version:"1.4.2")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:tcpVer, fixed_version:"1.4.2");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}