Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-4098 - Unspecified vulnerability in Monotone
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN monotone
nessus
Summary
monotone before 0.48.1, when configured to allow remote commands, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty argument to the mtn command.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2010-16902.NASL description Update to monotone-0.48.1, which contains a fix for a DoS : Running last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 50507 published 2010-11-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/50507 title Fedora 13 : monotone-0.48.1-1.fc13 (2010-16902) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2010-16902. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(50507); script_version("1.11"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:32"); script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4098"); script_bugtraq_id(44383); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2010-16902"); script_name(english:"Fedora 13 : monotone-0.48.1-1.fc13 (2010-16902)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Update to monotone-0.48.1, which contains a fix for a DoS : Running 'mtn ' or 'mtn ls ' doesn't cause an internal error anymore. In monotone 0.48 and earlier this behavior could be used to crash a server remotely (but only if it was configured to allow execution of remote commands). Therefore everyone running such a server should update as soon as possible. There's also a fix for a non-critical issue : Using mtn:// style URIs for netsync operations didn't work with 0.48 on systems which only have a 'monotone' entry in /etc/services. Failing to find a corresponding entry for the schema in a given URI isn't considered fatal now, instead mtn falls back to its default port. 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:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647302" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050468.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?ce8027d7" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected monotone package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:monotone"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/10/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/11/08"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); 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:"^13([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 13.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC13", reference:"monotone-0.48.1-1.fc13")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "monotone"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_3_MONOTONE-101111.NASL description remote attackers could crash a monotone server via an empty argument to the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 75645 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75645 title openSUSE Security Update : monotone (openSUSE-SU-2010:0936-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update monotone-3505. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(75645); script_version("1.4"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:39"); script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4098"); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : monotone (openSUSE-SU-2010:0936-1)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the monotone-3505 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "remote attackers could crash a monotone server via an empty argument to the 'mtn' command (CVE-2010-4098)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649515" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-11/msg00013.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected monotone package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:monotone"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/11/11"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu"); 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/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE11\.3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "11.3", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE11.3", reference:"monotone-0.48.1-1.3.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "monotone"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2010-16888.NASL description Update to monotone-0.48.1, which contains a fix for a DoS : Running last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 50506 published 2010-11-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/50506 title Fedora 14 : monotone-0.48.1-1.fc14 (2010-16888) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2010-16888. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(50506); script_version("1.11"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:32"); script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4098"); script_bugtraq_id(44383); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2010-16888"); script_name(english:"Fedora 14 : monotone-0.48.1-1.fc14 (2010-16888)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Update to monotone-0.48.1, which contains a fix for a DoS : Running 'mtn ' or 'mtn ls ' doesn't cause an internal error anymore. In monotone 0.48 and earlier this behavior could be used to crash a server remotely (but only if it was configured to allow execution of remote commands). Therefore everyone running such a server should update as soon as possible. There's also a fix for a non-critical issue : Using mtn:// style URIs for netsync operations didn't work with 0.48 on systems which only have a 'monotone' entry in /etc/services. Failing to find a corresponding entry for the schema in a given URI isn't considered fatal now, instead mtn falls back to its default port. 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:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647302" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050484.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?5a3126d9" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected monotone package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:monotone"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/10/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/11/08"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); 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:"^14([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 14.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC14", reference:"monotone-0.48.1-1.fc14")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "monotone"); }
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050468.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050468.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050484.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050484.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41960
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41960
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42177
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42177
- http://www.monotone.ca/NEWS
- http://www.monotone.ca/NEWS
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44383
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44383
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2910
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2910
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62758
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62758