Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-2524 - Link Following vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 3.3 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
mageia
gnu
opensuse
fedoraproject
CWE-59
nessus
NVD
Published: 2014-08-20
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Mageia
2
OS
Opensuse
2
OS
Fedoraproject
1
Application
Gnu
15

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Symlink Attack
    An attacker positions a symbolic link in such a manner that the targeted user or application accesses the link's endpoint, assuming that it is accessing a file with the link's name. The endpoint file may be either output or input. If the file is output, the result is that the endpoint is modified, instead of a file at the intended location. Modifications to the endpoint file may include appending, overwriting, corrupting, changing permissions, or other modifications. In some variants of this attack the attacker may be able to control the change to a file while in other cases they cannot. The former is especially damaging since the attacker may be able to grant themselves increased privileges or insert false information, but the latter can also be damaging as it can expose sensitive information or corrupt or destroy vital system or application files. Alternatively, the endpoint file may serve as input to the targeted application. This can be used to feed malformed input into the target or to cause the target to process different information, possibly allowing the attacker to control the actions of the target or to cause the target to expose information to the attacker. Moreover, the actions taken on the endpoint file are undertaken with the permissions of the targeted user or application, which may exceed the permissions that the attacker would normally have.
  • Accessing, Modifying or Executing Executable Files
    An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an attacker to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an attacker to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
  • Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files
    An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files, when the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high. The attack can be directed at a client system, such as causing buffer overrun through loading seemingly benign image files, as in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-028 where specially crafted JPEG files could cause a buffer overrun once loaded into the browser. Another example targets clients reading pdf files. In this case the attacker simply appends javascript to the end of a legitimate url for a pdf (http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/) http://path/to/pdf/file.pdf#whatever_name_you_want=javascript:your_code_here The client assumes that they are reading a pdf, but the attacker has modified the resource and loaded executable javascript into the client's browser process. The attack can also target server processes. The attacker edits the resource or configuration file, for example a web.xml file used to configure security permissions for a J2EE app server, adding role name "public" grants all users with the public role the ability to use the administration functionality. The server trusts its configuration file to be correct, but when they are manipulated, the attacker gains full control.
  • Manipulating Input to File System Calls
    An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2014-559.NASL
    descriptionbash was updated to fix a critical security issue, a minor security issue and bugs : In some circumstances, the shell would evaluate shellcode in environment variables passed at startup time. This allowed code execution by local or remote attackers who could pass environment variables to bash scripts. (CVE-2014-6271) Fixed a temporary file misuse in _rl_tropen (bnc#868822) Even if used only by developers to debug readline library do not open temporary files from public location without O_EXCL (CVE-2014-2524) Additional bugfixes : - Backported corrected german error message for a failing getpwd (bnc#895475) - Add bash upstream patch 47 to fix a problem where the function that shortens pathnames for $PS1 according to the value of $PROMPT_DIRTRIM uses memcpy on potentially-overlapping regions of memory, when it should use memmove. The result is garbled pathnames in prompt strings. - Add bash upstream patch 46 to fix a problem introduced by patch 32 a problem with
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2014-09-25
    plugin id77846
    published2014-09-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77846
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : bash (openSUSE-SU-2014:1226-1) (Shellshock)
    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 openSUSE-2014-559.
#
# The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(77846);
  script_version("1.17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-2524", "CVE-2014-6271");
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2014-A-0142");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : bash (openSUSE-SU-2014:1226-1) (Shellshock)");
  script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2014-559 patch");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"bash was updated to fix a critical security issue, a minor security
issue and bugs :

In some circumstances, the shell would evaluate shellcode in
environment variables passed at startup time. This allowed code
execution by local or remote attackers who could pass environment
variables to bash scripts. (CVE-2014-6271)

Fixed a temporary file misuse in _rl_tropen (bnc#868822) Even if used
only by developers to debug readline library do not open temporary
files from public location without O_EXCL (CVE-2014-2524)

Additional bugfixes :

  - Backported corrected german error message for a failing
    getpwd (bnc#895475)

  - Add bash upstream patch 47 to fix a problem where the
    function that shortens pathnames for $PS1 according to
    the value of $PROMPT_DIRTRIM uses memcpy on
    potentially-overlapping regions of memory, when it
    should use memmove. The result is garbled pathnames in
    prompt strings.

  - Add bash upstream patch 46 to fix a problem introduced
    by patch 32 a problem with '$@' and arrays expanding
    empty positional parameters or array elements when using
    substring expansion, pattern substitution, or case
    modfication. The empty parameters or array elements are
    removed instead of expanding to empty strings ('').

  - Add bash-4.2-strcpy.patch from upstream mailing list to
    patch collection tar ball to avoid when using \w in the
    prompt and changing the directory outside of HOME the a
    strcpy work on overlapping memory areas."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868822"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895475"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896776"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00036.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected bash packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_core", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'Qmail SMTP Bash Environment Variable Injection (Shellshock)');
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-debuginfo-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-lang");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-loadables");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:bash-loadables-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libreadline6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libreadline6-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libreadline6-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libreadline6-debuginfo-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:readline-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:readline-devel-32bit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/08/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/09/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/09/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 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 !~ "^(SUSE12\.3|SUSE13\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "12.3 / 13.1", 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:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-debuginfo-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-debugsource-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-devel-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-lang-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-loadables-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"bash-loadables-debuginfo-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"libreadline6-6.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"libreadline6-debuginfo-6.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"readline-devel-6.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"bash-debuginfo-32bit-4.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libreadline6-32bit-6.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libreadline6-debuginfo-32bit-6.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"readline-devel-32bit-6.2-61.9.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-debuginfo-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-debugsource-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-devel-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-lang-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-loadables-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"bash-loadables-debuginfo-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"libreadline6-6.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"libreadline6-debuginfo-6.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"readline-devel-6.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"bash-debuginfo-32bit-4.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libreadline6-32bit-6.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libreadline6-debuginfo-32bit-6.2-68.4.1") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"readline-devel-32bit-6.2-68.4.1") ) 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, "bash");
}
  • NASL familyAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idALA_ALAS-2014-357.NASL
    descriptionThe _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id78300
    published2014-10-12
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/78300
    titleAmazon Linux AMI : readline (ALAS-2014-357)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2014-357.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(78300);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:35");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2014-2524");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2014-357");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : readline (ALAS-2014-357)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The _rl_tropen function in util.c in GNU readline before 6.3 patch 3
allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a
symlink attack on a /var/tmp/rltrace.[PID] file."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-357.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update readline' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:readline");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:readline-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:readline-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:readline-static");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/06/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/10/12");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/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/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"readline-6.2-9.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"readline-debuginfo-6.2-9.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"readline-devel-6.2-9.14.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"readline-static-6.2-9.14.amzn1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "readline / readline-debuginfo / readline-devel / readline-static");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-6820.NASL
    descriptionFix CVE-2014-2524 (RHBZ #1077035) 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.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-06-10
    plugin id74390
    published2014-06-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74390
    titleFedora 20 : mingw-readline-6.2-4.fc20 (2014-6820)
    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 2014-6820.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(74390);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-6820");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : mingw-readline-6.2-4.fc20 (2014-6820)");
  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:
"Fix CVE-2014-2524 (RHBZ #1077035)

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=1077035"
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134114.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?024193aa"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected mingw-readline package."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-readline");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/05/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/10");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 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:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.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:"FC20", reference:"mingw-readline-6.2-4.fc20")) 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, "mingw-readline");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-6866.NASL
    descriptionFix CVE-2014-2524 (RHBZ #1077035) 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.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-06-10
    plugin id74401
    published2014-06-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/74401
    titleFedora 19 : mingw-readline-6.2-4.fc19 (2014-6866)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2014-154.NASL
    descriptionUpdated readline packages fix security vulnerability : Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks (CVE-2014-2524). Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id77042
    published2014-08-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/77042
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : readline (MDVSA-2014:154)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2014-7523.NASL
    descriptionreadline in Fedora is very slow when rl_event_hook is used, this update fix it. Security patch for debug functions 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.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2014-07-23
    plugin id76691
    published2014-07-23
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/76691
    titleFedora 20 : readline-6.2-10.fc20 (2014-7523)
  • NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
    NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2015-132.NASL
    descriptionUpdated readline packages fix security vulnerability : Steve Kemp discovered the _rl_tropen() function in readline insecurely handled a temporary file. This could allow a local attacker to perform symbolic link attacks (CVE-2014-2524). Also, upstream patches have been added to fix an infinite loop in vi input mode, and to fix an issue with slowness when pasting text.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id82385
    published2015-03-30
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82385
    titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : readline (MDVSA-2015:132)

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