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HistorySep 12, 2019 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : curl vulnerabilities (USN-4129-1)

2019-09-1200:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2019-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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Thomas Vegas discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when using Kerberos over FTP. A remote attacker could use this issue to crash curl, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-5481)

Thomas Vegas discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory during TFTP transfers. A remote attacker could use this issue to crash curl, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-5482).

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-4129-1. 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(128754);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-5481", "CVE-2019-5482");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4129-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : curl vulnerabilities (USN-4129-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Thomas Vegas discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when
using Kerberos over FTP. A remote attacker could use this issue to
crash curl, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-5481)

Thomas Vegas discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory during
TFTP transfers. A remote attacker could use this issue to crash curl,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-5482).

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-4129-1");
  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: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-2019-5482");

  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:"2019/09/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/09/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/09/12");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-gnutls-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-nss-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-openssl-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-: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) 2019-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2019-2023 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 (! ('16.04' >< os_release || '18.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04', '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': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'curl', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl3', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl3-gnutls', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl3-nss', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4-gnutls-dev', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4-nss-dev', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4-openssl-dev', 'pkgver': '7.47.0-1ubuntu2.14'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'curl', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl3-gnutls', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl3-nss', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4-gnutls-dev', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4-nss-dev', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libcurl4-openssl-dev', 'pkgver': '7.58.0-2ubuntu3.8'}
];

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_HOLE,
    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, 'curl / libcurl3 / libcurl3-gnutls / libcurl3-nss / libcurl4 / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxcurlp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:curl
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl3-gnutlsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-gnutls
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl3-nssp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl3-nss
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl4p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl4-gnutls-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-gnutls-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl4-nss-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-nss-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibcurl4-openssl-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcurl4-openssl-dev
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux18.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts