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HistoryMay 19, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Expat vulnerability (USN-2983-1)

2016-05-1900:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.008

Percentile

81.9%

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2983-1 advisory.

Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML data. If a user or application     linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of     service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2983-1. 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(91259);
  script_version("2.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-0718");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2983-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Expat vulnerability (USN-2983-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced
in the USN-2983-1 advisory.

    Gustavo Grieco discovered that Expat incorrectly handled malformed XML data. If a user or application
    linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of
    service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-0718)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2983-1");
  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:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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-2016-0718");

  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:"2016/05/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/05/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/05/19");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64expat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64expat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-udeb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:expat");
  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) 2016-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2024 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('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release || '16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'expat', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'expat', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = '';
  extra += ubuntu_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'expat / lib64expat1 / lib64expat1-dev / libexpat1 / libexpat1-dev / etc');
}

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.008

Percentile

81.9%