4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.8%
Yong Chuan Koh discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain negotiation requests. A remote attacker could use this to cause libssh to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
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-1707-1. 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(64285);
script_version("1.9");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:28");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0176");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1707-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : libssh vulnerability (USN-1707-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Yong Chuan Koh discovered that libssh incorrectly handled certain
negotiation requests. A remote attacker could use this to cause libssh
to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
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/1707-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected libssh-4 package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-4");
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:11.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/02/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/01/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/01/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 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\.10|12\.04|12\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 / 12.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libssh-4", pkgver:"0.4.2-1ubuntu1.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"libssh-4", pkgver:"0.5.2-1ubuntu0.11.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libssh-4", pkgver:"0.5.2-1ubuntu0.12.04.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"libssh-4", pkgver:"0.5.2-1ubuntu0.12.10.2")) 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, "libssh-4");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssh-4 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssh-4 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 11.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10 |