Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-0151 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Xintercepttalk Xitalk 1.1.11

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
xintercepttalk
nessus

Summary

Unknown vulnerability in xitalk 1.1.11 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Xintercepttalk
1

Nessus

NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-462.NASL
descriptionSteve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in xitalk, a talk intercept utility for the X Window System. A local user can exploit this problem and execute arbitrary commands under the GID utmp. This could be used by an attacker to remove traces from the utmp file.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id15299
published2004-09-29
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/15299
titleDebian DSA-462-1 : xitalk - missing privilege release
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-462. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(15299);
  script_version("1.19");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:17");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0151");
  script_bugtraq_id(9851);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"462");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-462-1 : xitalk - missing privilege release");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem
in xitalk, a talk intercept utility for the X Window System. A local
user can exploit this problem and execute arbitrary commands under the
GID utmp. This could be used by an attacker to remove traces from the
utmp file."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-462"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the xitalk package.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.11-9.1woody1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:xitalk");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/03/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/09/29");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"xitalk", reference:"1.1.11-9.1woody1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");