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HistoryNov 14, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Perl vulnerabilities (USN-3478-1)

2017-11-1400:00:00
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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Jakub Wilk discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-12837, CVE-2017-12883).

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-3478-1. 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(104543);
  script_version("3.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-12837", "CVE-2017-12883");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3478-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Perl vulnerabilities (USN-3478-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Jakub Wilk discovered that Perl incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause Perl to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-12837, CVE-2017-12883).

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-3478-1");
  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:N/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: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-2017-12883");

  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:"2017/09/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-base");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-debug");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules-5.22");
  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:libcgi-fast-perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl5.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl5.22");
  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': 'libcgi-fast-perl', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libperl-dev', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libperl5.18', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'perl', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'perl-base', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'perl-debug', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'perl-modules', 'pkgver': '5.18.2-2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libperl-dev', 'pkgver': '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libperl5.22', 'pkgver': '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'perl', 'pkgver': '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'perl-base', 'pkgver': '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'perl-debug', 'pkgver': '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'perl-modules-5.22', 'pkgver': '5.22.1-9ubuntu0.2'}
];

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_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, 'libcgi-fast-perl / libperl-dev / libperl5.18 / libperl5.22 / perl / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxperlp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl
canonicalubuntu_linuxperl-basep-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-base
canonicalubuntu_linuxperl-debugp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-debug
canonicalubuntu_linuxperl-modulesp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules
canonicalubuntu_linuxperl-modules-5.22p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules-5.22
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcgi-fast-perlp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcgi-fast-perl
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibperl-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibperl5.18p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl5.18
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