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HistoryJan 15, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 4.10 : mysql-dfsg vulnerabilities (USN-32-1)

2006-01-1500:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2004-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
www.tenable.com
9

10 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.5%

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database server.

Lukasz Wojtow discovered a potential buffer overflow in the function mysql_real_connect(). A malicious name server could send specially crafted DNS packages which might result in execution of arbitrary code with the database server’s privileges. However, it is believed that this bug cannot be exploited with the C Standard library (glibc) that Ubuntu uses. (CAN-2004-0836).

Dean Ellis noticed a flaw that allows an authorized MySQL user to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via concurrent execution of certain statements (ALTER TABLE … UNION=, FLUSH TABLES) on tables of type MERGE (CAN-2004-0837)

Some query strings containing a double quote (like MATCH … AGAINST (’ some ’ query’ IN BOOLEAN MODE) ) that did not have a matching closing double quote caused a denial of service (server crash). Again, this is only exploitable by authorized mysql users. (CAN-2004-0956)

If a user was granted privileges to a database with a name containing an underscore (‘_’), the user also gained the ability to grant privileges to other databases with similar names. (CAN-2004-0957).

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-32-1. 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(20648);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0836", "CVE-2004-0837", "CVE-2004-0956", "CVE-2004-0957");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"32-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 : mysql-dfsg vulnerabilities (USN-32-1)");
  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:
"Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MySQL database
server.

Lukasz Wojtow discovered a potential buffer overflow in the function
mysql_real_connect(). A malicious name server could send specially
crafted DNS packages which might result in execution of arbitrary code
with the database server's privileges. However, it is believed that
this bug cannot be exploited with the C Standard library (glibc) that
Ubuntu uses. (CAN-2004-0836).

Dean Ellis noticed a flaw that allows an authorized MySQL user to
cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via concurrent execution of
certain statements (ALTER TABLE ... UNION=, FLUSH TABLES) on tables of
type MERGE (CAN-2004-0837)

Some query strings containing a double quote (like MATCH ... AGAINST
(' some ' query' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ) that did not have a matching
closing double quote caused a denial of service (server crash). Again,
this is only exploitable by authorized mysql users. (CAN-2004-0956)

If a user was granted privileges to a database with a name containing
an underscore ('_'), the user also gained the ability to grant
privileges to other databases with similar names. (CAN-2004-0957).

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:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_cwe_id(119);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/11/25");
  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) 2004-2019 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)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10", "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:"4.10", pkgname:"libmysqlclient-dev", pkgver:"4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libmysqlclient12", pkgver:"4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"mysql-client", pkgver:"4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"mysql-common", pkgver:"4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"mysql-server", pkgver:"4.0.20-2ubuntu1.1")) 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, "libmysqlclient-dev / libmysqlclient12 / mysql-client / mysql-common / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibmysqlclient-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibmysqlclient12p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmysqlclient12
canonicalubuntu_linuxmysql-clientp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-client
canonicalubuntu_linuxmysql-commonp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-common
canonicalubuntu_linuxmysql-serverp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mysql-server
canonicalubuntu_linux4.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

10 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.5%