Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-0071 - Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Gentoo Pinentry

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200601-01.
#
# The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
# and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike 
# license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(20411);
  script_version("1.13");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:43");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0071");
  script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"200601-01");

  script_name(english:"GLSA-200601-01 : pinentry: Local privilege escalation");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200601-01
(pinentry: Local privilege escalation)

    Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has
    discovered that the pinentry ebuild incorrectly sets the permissions of
    the pinentry binaries upon installation, so that the sgid bit is set
    making them execute with the privileges of group ID 0.
  
Impact :

    A user of pinentry could potentially read and overwrite files with
    a group ID of 0.
  
Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200601-01"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"All pinentry users should upgrade to the latest version:
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.2-r2'"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pinentry");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/01/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/01/03");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("qpkg.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (qpkg_check(package:"app-crypt/pinentry", unaffected:make_list("ge 0.7.2-r2"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 0.7.2-r2"))) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = qpkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pinentry");
}