It was discovered that libvpx did not properly handle certain malformed WebM media files. If an application using libvpx opened a specially crafted WebM file, a remote attacker could 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.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4199-1. 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(131314);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/21");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2017-13194",
"CVE-2019-2126",
"CVE-2019-9232",
"CVE-2019-9325",
"CVE-2019-9371",
"CVE-2019-9433"
);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4199-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : libvpx vulnerabilities (USN-4199-1)");
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 libvpx did not properly handle certain
malformed WebM media files. If an application using libvpx opened a
specially crafted WebM file, a remote attacker could 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4199-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
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: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-2019-2126");
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:"2018/01/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/11/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/11/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvpx3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvpx5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vpx-tools");
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:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvpx-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) 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': 'libvpx-dev', 'pkgver': '1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libvpx3', 'pkgver': '1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'vpx-tools', 'pkgver': '1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libvpx-dev', 'pkgver': '1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libvpx5', 'pkgver': '1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'vpx-tools', 'pkgver': '1.7.0-3ubuntu0.18.04.1'}
];
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_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, 'libvpx-dev / libvpx3 / libvpx5 / vpx-tools');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvpx3 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvpx3 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvpx5 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvpx5 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | vpx-tools | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vpx-tools |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvpx-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvpx-dev |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13194
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-2126
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9232
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9325
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9371
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9433
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4199-1