Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9766 - Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in multiple products

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2018-cdf3f8e8b0.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(108674);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-17997", "CVE-2017-6014", "CVE-2017-9616", "CVE-2017-9617", "CVE-2017-9766", "CVE-2018-5334", "CVE-2018-5335", "CVE-2018-6836", "CVE-2018-7320", "CVE-2018-7334", "CVE-2018-7335", "CVE-2018-7336", "CVE-2018-7337", "CVE-2018-7417", "CVE-2018-7418", "CVE-2018-7419", "CVE-2018-7420");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2018-cdf3f8e8b0");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 27 : 1:wireshark (2018-cdf3f8e8b0)");
  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:
"Removing dependency on wireshark metapackage from wireshark-cli

----

Added wireshark-qt to wireshark metapackage

----

  - New version 2.4.5

  - Contains fixes for CVE-2018-7419, CVE-2018-7418,
    CVE-2018-7417, CVE-2018-7420, CVE-2018-7320,
    CVE-2018-7336, CVE-2018-7337, CVE-2018-7334,
    CVE-2018-7335, CVE-2018-6836, CVE-2018-5335,
    CVE-2018-5334, CVE-2017-6014, CVE-2017-9616,
    CVE-2017-9617, CVE-2017-9766

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-cdf3f8e8b0"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected 1:wireshark package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:wireshark");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/02/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/03/27");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/03/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 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 = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^27([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 27", "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:"FC27", reference:"wireshark-2.4.5-3.fc27", epoch:"1")) 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, "1:wireshark");
}