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HistoryFeb 12, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : libexif -- privilege escalation (00f30cba-4d23-11ea-86ba-641c67a117d8)

2020-02-1200:00:00
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18

8.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

Mitre reports :

In libexif, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege in the media content provider with no additional execution privileges needed.
User interaction is needed for exploitation.

#
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
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include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(133629);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/03/27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-9278");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : libexif -- privilege escalation (00f30cba-4d23-11ea-86ba-641c67a117d8)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Mitre reports :

In libexif, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an integer
overflow. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege in the
media content provider with no additional execution privileges needed.
User interaction is needed for exploitation.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9278");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/libexif/libexif/issues/26");
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/00f30cba-4d23-11ea-86ba-641c67a117d8.html
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?c5ca6575");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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:R/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-2019-9278");

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

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/02/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:libexif");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"libexif<0.6.21_5")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdlibexifp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:libexif
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd