5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.7%
Dominik Penner discovered a flaw in how KConfig interpreted shell commands in desktop files and other configuration files. An attacker may trick users into installing specially crafted files which could then be used to execute arbitrary code, e.g. a file manager trying to find out the icon for a file or any application using KConfig. Thus the entire feature of supporting shell commands in KConfig entries has been removed.
For Debian 8 ‘Jessie’, this problem has been fixed in version 4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your kde4libs packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1890-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(127926);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/02");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-14744");
script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1890-1 : kde4libs security update");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Dominik Penner discovered a flaw in how KConfig interpreted shell
commands in desktop files and other configuration files. An attacker
may trick users into installing specially crafted files which could
then be used to execute arbitrary code, e.g. a file manager trying to
find out the icon for a file or any application using KConfig. Thus
the entire feature of supporting shell commands in KConfig entries has
been removed.
For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version
4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your kde4libs packages.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00023.html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/kde4libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-14744");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/08/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/08/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/08/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-plugins");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdoctools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkcmutils4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkde3support4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdeclarative5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdecore5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdesu5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdeui5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdewebkit5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdnssd4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkemoticons4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkfile4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkhtml5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkidletime4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkimproxy4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkio5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkjsapi4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkjsembed4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkmediaplayer4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libknewstuff2-4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libknewstuff3-4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libknotifyconfig4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkntlm4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkparts4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkprintutils4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkpty4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrosscore4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrossui4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libktexteditor4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkunitconversion4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkutils4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnepomuk4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnepomukquery4a");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnepomukutils4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libplasma3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsolid4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libthreadweaver4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"kdelibs-bin", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"kdelibs5-data", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"kdelibs5-dbg", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"kdelibs5-dev", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"kdelibs5-plugins", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"kdoctools", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkcmutils4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkde3support4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkdeclarative5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkdecore5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkdesu5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkdeui5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkdewebkit5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkdnssd4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkemoticons4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkfile4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkhtml5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkidletime4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkimproxy4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkio5", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkjsapi4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkjsembed4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkmediaplayer4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libknewstuff2-4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libknewstuff3-4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libknotifyconfig4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkntlm4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkparts4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkprintutils4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkpty4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkrosscore4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkrossui4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libktexteditor4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkunitconversion4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libkutils4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libnepomuk4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libnepomukquery4a", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libnepomukutils4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libplasma3", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libsolid4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libthreadweaver4", reference:"4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0 |
debian | debian_linux | kdelibs-bin | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs-bin |
debian | debian_linux | kdelibs5-data | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-data |
debian | debian_linux | kdelibs5-dbg | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-dbg |
debian | debian_linux | kdelibs5-dev | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-dev |
debian | debian_linux | kdelibs5-plugins | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdelibs5-plugins |
debian | debian_linux | kdoctools | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:kdoctools |
debian | debian_linux | libkcmutils4 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkcmutils4 |
debian | debian_linux | libkde3support4 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkde3support4 |
debian | debian_linux | libkdeclarative5 | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdeclarative5 |
5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
69.7%