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HistoryApr 12, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates vulnerability (USN-1420-1)

2012-04-1200:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
www.tenable.com
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It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1420-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(58723);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-0946");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1420-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 : nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates vulnerability (USN-1420-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be
reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local
attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://usn.ubuntu.com/1420-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-173");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-173-updates");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-current-updates");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/04/22");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/04/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/04/12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(10\.04|11\.04|11\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 11.04 / 11.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) 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, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"nvidia-173", pkgver:"173.14.22-0ubuntu11.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"nvidia-current", pkgver:"195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"nvidia-173", pkgver:"173.14.30-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"nvidia-current", pkgver:"270.41.06-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"nvidia-173", pkgver:"173.14.30-0ubuntu8.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"nvidia-173-updates", pkgver:"173.14.30-0ubuntu5.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"nvidia-current", pkgver:"280.13-0ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"nvidia-current-updates", pkgver:"280.13-0ubuntu5.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "nvidia-173 / nvidia-173-updates / nvidia-current / etc");
}