Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-2833 - Remote Denial of Service vulnerability in GNU Emacs Image Processing

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) Novell, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(29416);
  script_version ("1.15");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-2833");

  script_name(english:"SuSE 10 Security Update : GNU Emacs (ZYPP Patch Number 4190)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update fixes a bug in parsing GIF images that lead to a crash of
emacs. (CVE-2007-2833)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-2833.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply ZYPP patch number 4190.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/08/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/12/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

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

  exit(0);
}


include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) exit(0, "Local checks are not enabled.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release")) exit(0, "The host is not running SuSE.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) exit(1, "Could not obtain the list of installed packages.");

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) exit(1, "Failed to determine the architecture type.");
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") exit(1, "Local checks for SuSE 10 on the '"+cpu+"' architecture have not been implemented.");


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-info-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-x11-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-el-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-info-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-nox-21.3-224.7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"emacs-x11-21.3-224.7")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else exit(0, "The host is not affected.");

#%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-1316. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(25582);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-2833");
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1316");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1316-1 : emacs21 - denial of service");
  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:
"It has been discovered that emacs, the GNU Emacs editor, will crash
when processing certain types of images."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408929"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1316"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the emacs21 package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 21.4a+1-3etch1."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:emacs21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/06/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/06/27");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  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:"4.0", prefix:"emacs", reference:"21.4a+1-3etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"emacs21", reference:"21.4a+1-3etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"emacs21-bin-common", reference:"21.4a+1-3etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"emacs21-common", reference:"21.4a+1-3etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"emacs21-el", reference:"21.4a+1-3etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"emacs21-nox", reference:"21.4a+1-3etch1")) 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");