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Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerability (USN-2852-1)

🗓️ 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Ubuntu 15.10 linux-raspi2 vulnerability (USN-2852-1) ptrace issue with user namespaces in Linux kernel discovered by Jann Horn, allowing privilege escalation

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#%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-2852-1. 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(87535);
  script_version("2.11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/04/02");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2852-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerability (USN-2852-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Jann Horn discovered a ptrace issue with user namespaces in the Linux
kernel. The namespace owner could potentially exploit this flaw by
ptracing a root owned process entering the user namespace to elevate
its privileges and potentially gain access outside of the namespace.
(http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527374)

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/2852-1/");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected linux-image-4.2-raspi2 package.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"risk_factor", value:"High");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2015/12/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/12/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/12/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-4.2-raspi2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2015-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2015-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  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:"^(15\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 15.10", "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:"15.10", pkgname:"linux-image-4.2.0-1017-raspi2", pkgver:"4.2.0-1017.24")) 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, "linux-image-4.2-raspi2");
}

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