Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-9705 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in multiple products

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2019:1990-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(127092);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-9704", "CVE-2019-9705");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : cronie (SUSE-SU-2019:1990-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update for cronie fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-9704: Fixed an insufficient check in the return value of
calloc which could allow a local user to create Denial of Service by
crashing the deamon (bsc#1128937).

CVE-2019-9705: Fixed an implementation vulnerability which could allow
a local user to exhaust the memory resulting in Denial of Service
(bsc#1128935).

Bug fixes: Manual start of cron is possible even when it's already
started using systemd (bsc#1133100).

Cron schedules only one job of crontab (bsc#1130746).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the SUSE 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.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128935"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128937"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130746"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133100"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9704/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9705/"
  );
  # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20191990-1/
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c075d4dd"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-1990=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch
SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-1990=1

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It
will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger
updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/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:L/AC:L/PR:L/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:novell:suse_linux:cron");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cronie");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cronie-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cronie-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/03/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/07/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/07/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 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/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/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/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLED12|SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLED12 / SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver);

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

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);

sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);
if (os_ver == "SLED12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(4)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLED12 SP4", os_ver + " SP" + sp);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"cron-4.2-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"cronie-1.4.11-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"4", reference:"cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cron-4.2-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cronie-1.4.11-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cronie-debuginfo-1.4.11-59.10.1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLED12", sp:"4", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cronie-debugsource-1.4.11-59.10.1")) 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, "cronie");
}