Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-17426 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in GNU Glibc 2.26

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2018-2.0-0009. The text
# itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.


include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(121902);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2019/02/07");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-17426");

  script_name(english:"Photon OS 2.0: Glibc PHSA-2018-2.0-0009");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update of the glibc package has been released.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-2-9.md");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected Linux packages.");
  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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-17433");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/01/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/01/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:glibc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/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/PhotonOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS");
if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 2.0");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/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, "PhotonOS", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-debuginfo-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-devel-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-i18n-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-iconv-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-lang-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-nscd-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"glibc-tools-2.26-7.ph2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "glibc");
}