It was discovered that Bouncy Castle incorrectly handled certain crypto algorithms. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to obtain sensitive information, including private keys.
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-3727-1. 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(111512);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2015-6644",
"CVE-2015-7940",
"CVE-2016-1000338",
"CVE-2016-1000339",
"CVE-2016-1000341",
"CVE-2016-1000342",
"CVE-2016-1000343",
"CVE-2016-1000345",
"CVE-2016-1000346"
);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3727-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Bouncy Castle vulnerabilities (USN-3727-1)");
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 Bouncy Castle incorrectly handled certain
crypto algorithms. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues
to obtain sensitive information, including private keys.
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-3727-1");
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:N");
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:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-1000343");
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:"2015/11/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/08/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/02");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcmail-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcpg-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcpkix-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcprov-java");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-: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)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04', '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': 'libbcmail-java', 'pkgver': '1.49+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libbcpg-java', 'pkgver': '1.49+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libbcpkix-java', 'pkgver': '1.49+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libbcprov-java', 'pkgver': '1.49+dfsg-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, 'libbcmail-java / libbcpg-java / libbcpkix-java / libbcprov-java');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libbcmail-java | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcmail-java |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libbcpg-java | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcpg-java |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libbcpkix-java | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcpkix-java |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libbcprov-java | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libbcprov-java |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6644
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7940
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000338
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000339
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000341
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000342
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000343
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000345
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000346
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3727-1