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HistoryJun 05, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : db5.3 vulnerability (USN-4004-2)

2019-06-0500:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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USN-4004-1 fixed a vulnerability in Berkeley DB. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details :

It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information.

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-4004-2. 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(125720);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/05/16");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-8457");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4004-2");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : db5.3 vulnerability (USN-4004-2)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"USN-4004-1 fixed a vulnerability in Berkeley DB. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details :

It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive
information.

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/4004-2/");
  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:P/A:P");
  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: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-2019-8457");

  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:"2019/05/30");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/06/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/06/05");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:db5.3-sql-util");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:db5.3-util");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3-sql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3-sql-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04");
  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) 2019-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2024 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);
}

# Temp disable
exit(0, "Temporarily disabled.");

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:"^(14\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 14.04", "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$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"db5.3-sql-util", pkgver:"5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1+esm1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"db5.3-util", pkgver:"5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1+esm1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"libdb5.3", pkgver:"5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1+esm1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"libdb5.3-sql", pkgver:"5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1+esm1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"14.04", pkgname:"libdb5.3-sql-dev", pkgver:"5.3.28-3ubuntu3.1+esm1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    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, "db5.3-sql-util / db5.3-util / libdb5.3 / libdb5.3-sql / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxdb5.3-sql-utilp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:db5.3-sql-util
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04
canonicalubuntu_linuxdb5.3-utilp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:db5.3-util
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibdb5.3-sqlp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3-sql
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibdb5.3-sql-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3-sql-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibdb5.3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdb5.3