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HistoryOct 09, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxkbcommon vulnerabilities (USN-3786-1)

2018-10-0900:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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It was discovered that libxkbcommon incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-15853, CVE-2018-15854, CVE-2018-15855, CVE-2018-15856, CVE-2018-15857, CVE-2018-15858, CVE-2018-15859, CVE-2018-15861, CVE-2018-15862, CVE-2018-15863, CVE-2018-15864).

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.

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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3786-1. 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(117996);
  script_version("1.9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2018-15853",
    "CVE-2018-15854",
    "CVE-2018-15855",
    "CVE-2018-15856",
    "CVE-2018-15857",
    "CVE-2018-15858",
    "CVE-2018-15859",
    "CVE-2018-15861",
    "CVE-2018-15862",
    "CVE-2018-15863",
    "CVE-2018-15864"
  );
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3786-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : libxkbcommon vulnerabilities (USN-3786-1)");

  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 libxkbcommon incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2018-15853, CVE-2018-15854, CVE-2018-15855,
CVE-2018-15856, CVE-2018-15857, CVE-2018-15858, CVE-2018-15859,
CVE-2018-15861, CVE-2018-15862, CVE-2018-15863, CVE-2018-15864).

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-3786-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2018-15857");

  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:"2018/08/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/09");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon-x11-0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon-x11-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon0");
  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:libxkbcommon-dev");
  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': 'libxkbcommon-dev', 'pkgver': '0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon-x11-0', 'pkgver': '0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon-x11-dev', 'pkgver': '0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon0', 'pkgver': '0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon-dev', 'pkgver': '0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon-x11-0', 'pkgver': '0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon-x11-dev', 'pkgver': '0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libxkbcommon0', 'pkgver': '0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1'}
];

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, 'libxkbcommon-dev / libxkbcommon-x11-0 / libxkbcommon-x11-dev / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxkbcommon-x11-0p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon-x11-0
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxkbcommon-x11-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon-x11-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxkbcommon0p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon0
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibxkbcommon-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libxkbcommon-dev