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Ubuntu 19.04 / 19.10 : fribidi vulnerability (USN-4179-1)

🗓️ 08 Nov 2019 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch for fribidi vulnerability (USN-4179-1)

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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-4179-1. 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(130757);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2019-18397");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4179-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 19.04 / 19.10 : fribidi vulnerability (USN-4179-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Alex Murray discovered a stack-based buffer overflow when handling a
large number of unicode isolate directives. An attacker could use this
to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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/4179-1/");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected libfribidi0 package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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:N/UI:R/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-2019-18397");

  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:"2019/11/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/08");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfribidi0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10");
  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);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(19\.04|19\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 19.04 / 19.10", "Ubuntu " + 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 flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"19.04", pkgname:"libfribidi0", pkgver:"1.0.5-3.1ubuntu0.19.04.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"19.10", pkgname:"libfribidi0", pkgver:"1.0.5-3.1ubuntu0.19.10.1")) 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, "libfribidi0");
}

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12 Apr 2024 00:00Current
8.2High risk
Vulners AI Score8.2
CVSS 26.8
CVSS 3.17.8
EPSS0.02182
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