Tavis Ormandy discovered that libpng did not correctly calculate the size of sPLT structures when reading an image. By tricking a user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could exploit this weakness to crash the application using the library.
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-383-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(27966);
script_version("1.16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-5793");
script_bugtraq_id(21078);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"383-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : libpng vulnerability (USN-383-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Tavis Ormandy discovered that libpng did not correctly calculate the
size of sPLT structures when reading an image. By tricking a user or
an automated system into processing a specially crafted PNG file, an
attacker could exploit this weakness to crash the application using
the library.
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/383-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng10-0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng10-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng12-0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng12-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng2-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/11/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
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);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(5\.10|6\.06|6\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 / 6.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"libpng10-0", pkgver:"1.0.18-1ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"libpng10-dev", pkgver:"1.0.18-1ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"libpng2", pkgver:"1.0.18-1ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"libpng2-dev", pkgver:"1.0.18-1ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libpng12-0", pkgver:"1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libpng12-dev", pkgver:"1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libpng3", pkgver:"1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libpng12-0", pkgver:"1.2.8rel-5.1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libpng12-dev", pkgver:"1.2.8rel-5.1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libpng3", pkgver:"1.2.8rel-5.1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libpng10-0 / libpng10-dev / libpng12-0 / libpng12-dev / libpng2 / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng10-0 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng10-0 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng10-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng10-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng12-0 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng12-0 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng12-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng12-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng2 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng2 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng2-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng2-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpng3 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpng3 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 5.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10 |