Max Vozeler discovered that the the ‘pstopnm’ conversion tool did not use the -dSAFER option when calling ghostscript. This option prohibits file operations and calling commands within PostScript code. This flaw could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code if he tricked an user (or an automatic server) into processing a specially crafted PostScript document with pstopnm.
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-164-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(20570);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2471");
script_bugtraq_id(14379);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"164-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : netpbm-free vulnerability (USN-164-1)");
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:
"Max Vozeler discovered that the the 'pstopnm' conversion tool did not
use the -dSAFER option when calling ghostscript. This option prohibits
file operations and calling commands within PostScript code. This flaw
could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code if he
tricked an user (or an automatic server) into processing a specially
crafted PostScript document with pstopnm.
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:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:ND");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm10-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm9-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:netpbm");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/15");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
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 (! ereg(pattern:"^(4\.10|5\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libnetpbm10", pkgver:"10.0-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libnetpbm10-dev", pkgver:"10.0-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libnetpbm9", pkgver:"10.0-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libnetpbm9-dev", pkgver:"10.0-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"netpbm", pkgver:"10.0-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"libnetpbm10", pkgver:"10.0-8ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"libnetpbm10-dev", pkgver:"10.0-8ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"libnetpbm9", pkgver:"10.0-8ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"libnetpbm9-dev", pkgver:"10.0-8ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"netpbm", pkgver:"10.0-8ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
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, "libnetpbm10 / libnetpbm10-dev / libnetpbm9 / libnetpbm9-dev / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libnetpbm10 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libnetpbm10-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm10-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libnetpbm9 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm9 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libnetpbm9-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm9-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | netpbm | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:netpbm |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 4.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 5.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04 |