Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-18189 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory ALAS-2019-1352.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(130604);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/12/17");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-18189");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2019-1352");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux 2 : sox (ALAS-2019-1352)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A NULL pointer dereference flaw found in the way SoX handled
processing of AIFF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw
to crash the SoX application by tricking it into processing crafted
AIFF files.(CVE-2017-18189)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2019-1352.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update sox' to update your system."
  );
  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_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sox-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/02/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  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 != "2")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux 2", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

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


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sox-14.4.1-7.amzn2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sox-debuginfo-14.4.1-7.amzn2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"AL2", reference:"sox-devel-14.4.1-7.amzn2")) 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, "sox / sox-debuginfo / sox-devel");
}