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HistorySep 26, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Libplist vulnerability (USN-3429-1)

2017-09-2600:00:00
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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10

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

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

58.7%

Wang Junjie discovered that Libplist incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this to cause a crash or denial or 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-3429-1. 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(103466);
  script_version("3.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-7982");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3429-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Libplist vulnerability (USN-3429-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Wang Junjie discovered that Libplist incorrectly handled certain
files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted file, an attacker
could possibly use this to cause a crash or denial or 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3429-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/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-2017-7982");

  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:"2017/04/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/09/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/09/26");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-plist");
  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:libplist++-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist++1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist++3v5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist-dev");
  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': 'libplist++-dev', 'pkgver': '1.10-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist++1', 'pkgver': '1.10-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist-dev', 'pkgver': '1.10-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist-utils', 'pkgver': '1.10-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist1', 'pkgver': '1.10-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'python-plist', 'pkgver': '1.10-1ubuntu0.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist++-dev', 'pkgver': '1.12-3.1ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist++3v5', 'pkgver': '1.12-3.1ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist-dev', 'pkgver': '1.12-3.1ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist-utils', 'pkgver': '1.12-3.1ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libplist3', 'pkgver': '1.12-3.1ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'python-plist', 'pkgver': '1.12-3.1ubuntu0.16.04.1'}
];

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_WARNING,
    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, 'libplist++-dev / libplist++1 / libplist++3v5 / libplist-dev / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist-utilsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist-utils
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist1p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist1
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist3
canonicalubuntu_linuxpython-plistp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-plist
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist%2b%2b-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist%2b%2b-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist%2b%2b1p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist%2b%2b1
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist%2b%2b3v5p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist%2b%2b3v5
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibplist-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplist-dev

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

5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

58.7%