6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.3%
It was discovered that Exempi incorrectly handled certain media files.
If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause Exempi to hang or crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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-3668-1. 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(110321);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2017-18233",
"CVE-2017-18234",
"CVE-2017-18236",
"CVE-2017-18238",
"CVE-2018-7728",
"CVE-2018-7729",
"CVE-2018-7730",
"CVE-2018-7731"
);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3668-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Exempi vulnerabilities (USN-3668-1)");
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 Exempi incorrectly handled certain media files.
If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, a remote attacker could cause Exempi to hang or crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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-3668-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected exempi, libexempi-dev and / or libexempi3 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:L/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-2017-18234");
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:"2018/03/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/06/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/06/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exempi");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexempi-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexempi3");
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) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 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': 'exempi', 'pkgver': '2.2.1-1ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexempi-dev', 'pkgver': '2.2.1-1ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexempi3', 'pkgver': '2.2.1-1ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'exempi', 'pkgver': '2.2.2-2ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexempi-dev', 'pkgver': '2.2.2-2ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexempi3', 'pkgver': '2.2.2-2ubuntu0.1'}
];
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, 'exempi / libexempi-dev / libexempi3');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | exempi | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exempi |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libexempi-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexempi-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libexempi3 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexempi3 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18233
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18234
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18236
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18238
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7728
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7729
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7730
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7731
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3668-1
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.3%