Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-3153 - Remote Cache Poisoning vulnerability in C-Ares DNS Library

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(25473);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:38");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-3152", "CVE-2007-3153");
  script_xref(name:"Secunia", value:"25579");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : c-ares -- DNS Cache Poisoning Vulnerability (70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Secunia reports :

The vulnerability is caused due to predictable DNS 'Transaction ID'
field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison the DNS cache of
an application using the library if a valid ID is guessed."
  );
  # http://cool.haxx.se/cvs.cgi/curl/ares/CHANGES?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?066a82a8"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?749bdb33"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  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:freebsd:freebsd:c-ares");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2007/06/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/06/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/06/12");
  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:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


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


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"c-ares<1.4.0")) flag++;

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

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2007-0724.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(27676);
  script_version ("1.12");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-3152", "CVE-2007-3153");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2007-0724");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 7 : c-ares-1.4.0-1.fc7 (2007-0724)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"There is a vulnerability in c-ares < 1.4.0, caused by predictable DNS
'Transaction ID' field in DNS queries and can be exploited to poison
the DNS cache of an application using the library if a valid ID is
guessed.

http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.html

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."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/70ae62b0-16b0-11dc-b803-0016179b2dd5.html"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2007-June/002388.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f6a80ef1"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected c-ares, c-ares-debuginfo and / or c-ares-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:c-ares");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:c-ares-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/06/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/06");
  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:"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:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 7.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:"FC7", reference:"c-ares-1.4.0-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"c-ares-debuginfo-1.4.0-1.fc7")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC7", reference:"c-ares-devel-1.4.0-1.fc7")) 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, "c-ares / c-ares-debuginfo / c-ares-devel");
}