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HistoryMar 17, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-3235-1)

2017-03-1700:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled format strings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4448)

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-4658)

Nick Wellnhofer discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5131).

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.

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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3235-1. 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(97793);
  script_version("3.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-4448", "CVE-2016-4658", "CVE-2016-5131");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3235-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxml2 vulnerabilities (USN-3235-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled format strings. If
a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4448)

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed
documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2 to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-4658)

Nick Wellnhofer discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain
malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could cause libxml2
to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5131).

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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3235-1");
  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_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/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:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-4658");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/06/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/03/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/03/17");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2-udeb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-libxml2");
  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:"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) 2017-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2023 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': 'libxml2', 'pkgver': '2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2-dev', 'pkgver': '2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2-utils', 'pkgver': '2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python-libxml2', 'pkgver': '2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2', 'pkgver': '2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2-dev', 'pkgver': '2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxml2-utils', 'pkgver': '2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python-libxml2', 'pkgver': '2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach 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)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libxml2 / libxml2-dev / libxml2-udeb / libxml2-utils / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxml2p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxml2-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxml2-udebp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2-udeb
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxml2-utilsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxml2-utils
canonicalubuntu_linuxpython-libxml2p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-libxml2
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts