A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.
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-3481-1. 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(104653);
script_version("3.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/23");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2017-13783",
"CVE-2017-13784",
"CVE-2017-13785",
"CVE-2017-13788",
"CVE-2017-13791",
"CVE-2017-13792",
"CVE-2017-13793",
"CVE-2017-13794",
"CVE-2017-13795",
"CVE-2017-13796",
"CVE-2017-13798",
"CVE-2017-13802",
"CVE-2017-13803"
);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3481-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities (USN-3481-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+
Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a
malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues
related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting
attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.
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-3481-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
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:R/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-2017-13803");
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:"2017/11/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev");
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:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-webkit2-4.0");
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 (! ('16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 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': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'gir1.2-webkit2-4.0', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev', 'pkgver': '2.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'}
];
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, 'gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 / gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 / etc');
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13783
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13784
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13785
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13788
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13791
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13792
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13793
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13794
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13795
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13796
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13798
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13802
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13803
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3481-1