Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-2550 - Format String vulnerability in GNOME Evolution

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2005-743.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(19437);
  script_version ("1.12");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:24");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2549", "CVE-2005-2550");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2005-743");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 4 : evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4 (2005-743)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Fix for SITIC Vulnerability Advisory SA05-001

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2005-August/001215.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?715604a2"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected evolution, evolution-debuginfo and / or
evolution-devel packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/08/18");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  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/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^4([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 4.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) 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, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"evolution-debuginfo-2.2.3-2.fc4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC4", reference:"evolution-devel-2.2.3-2.fc4")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "evolution / evolution-debuginfo / evolution-devel");
}