Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1496 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls vulnerability in Nicholas Marriott Tmux 1.3/1.4

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2011-5156.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(53480);
  script_version("1.10");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1496");
  script_bugtraq_id(47283);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2011-5156");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 13 : tmux-1.4-3.fc13 (2011-5156)");
  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:
"tmux didn't drop group privileges correctly in all cases.

This is fixed by using an updated patch originating from the debian
tmux package.

Fixes RHBZ #694563, CVE-2011-1496

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=694563"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058452.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?78c6a287"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected tmux package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tmux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/04/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/04/19");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 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:"tmux-1.4-3.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, "tmux");
}