Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-2210 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Apache XML Security for C++

#%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-2717. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(67102);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2210");
  script_bugtraq_id(60817);
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2717");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2717-1 : xml-security-c - heap overflow");
  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:
"Jon Erickson of iSIGHT Partners Labs discovered a heap overflow in
xml-security-c, an implementation of the XML Digital Security
specification. The fix to address CVE-2013-2154 introduced the
possibility of a heap overflow in the processing of malformed XPointer
expressions in the XML Signature Reference processing code, possibly
leading to arbitrary code execution."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714241"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2154"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/xml-security-c"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/xml-security-c"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2717"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Upgrade the xml-security-c packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.5.1-3+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.1-5+deb7u2."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:debian:debian_linux:xml-security-c");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/06/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/06/29");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 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:"6.0", prefix:"libxml-security-c-dev", reference:"1.5.1-3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"6.0", prefix:"libxml-security-c15", reference:"1.5.1-3+squeeze3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libxml-security-c-dev", reference:"1.6.1-5+deb7u2")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libxml-security-c16", reference:"1.6.1-5+deb7u2")) 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");