Ubuntu 17.10 : libreoffice regression (USN-3579-3)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3579-3. 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(107215);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/10/24");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-6871");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3579-3");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 17.10 : libreoffice regression (USN-3579-3)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"USN-3579-1 fixed a vulnerability in LibreOffice. After upgrading, it
was no longer possible for LibreOffice to open documents from certain
locations outside of the user's home directory. This update fixes the
problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details :

It was discovered that =WEBSERVICE calls in a document could be used
to read arbitrary files. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this to
obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-6871).

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://usn.ubuntu.com/3579-3/");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected libreoffice-common package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  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-2018-6871");

  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:"2018/02/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/03/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/03/08");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libreoffice-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10");
  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) 2018-2025 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2025 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("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(17\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 17.10", "Ubuntu " + 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 flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"17.10", pkgname:"libreoffice-common", pkgver:"1:5.4.5-0ubuntu0.17.10.5")) 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, "libreoffice-common");
}