Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6915 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in IBM AIX 5.2.0/5.3.0

047910
CVSS 4.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
ibm
nessus
NVD
Published: 2006-12-31
Updated: 2011-03-08

Summary

ftpd in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (port exhaustion) via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some details were obtained from third party sources.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Ibm
2

Nessus

NASL familyAIX Local Security Checks
NASL idAIX_U809506.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is missing AIX PTF U809506, which is related to the security of the package bos.net.tcp.client.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id65311
published2013-03-13
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65311
titleAIX 5.3 TL 6 : bos.net.tcp.client (U809506)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted
# from AIX Security PTF U809506. The text itself is copyright (C)
# International Business Machines Corp.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(65311);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/16 14:12:47");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2006-6914", "CVE-2006-6915");

  script_name(english:"AIX 5.3 TL 6 : bos.net.tcp.client (U809506)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for PTF U809506");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote AIX host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The remote host is missing AIX PTF U809506, which is related to the
security of the package bos.net.tcp.client."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY89168"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY91468"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Install the appropriate missing security-related fix."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5.3");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/09/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/09/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/03/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"AIX Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AIX/oslevel", "Host/AIX/version", "Host/AIX/lslpp");

  exit(0);
}



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

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/AIX/version") ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "AIX");
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/AIX/lslpp") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

flag = 0;

if ( aix_check_patch(ml:"530006", patch:"U809506", package:"bos.net.tcp.client.5.3.0.54") < 0 ) flag++;

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

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