Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : ppp vulnerability (USN-4451-1)

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4451-1. 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(139371);
  script_version("1.7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/21");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2020-15704");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4451-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : ppp vulnerability (USN-4451-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Thomas Chauchefoin working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative,
discovered that ppp incorrectly handled module loading. A local
attacker could use this issue to load arbitrary kernel modules and
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-4451-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected ppp, ppp-dev and / or ppp-udeb packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-15704");

  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:"2020/09/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/08/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/08/06");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ppp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ppp-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ppp-udeb");
  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:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-: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) 2020-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020-2023 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 || '20.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04 / 20.04', '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': 'ppp', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-1+2ubuntu1.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp-dev', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-1+2ubuntu1.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-1+2ubuntu1.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-2+2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp-dev', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-2+2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-2+2ubuntu1.3'},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-2+4.1ubuntu5.1'},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp-dev', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-2+4.1ubuntu5.1'},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'ppp-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.4.7-2+4.1ubuntu5.1'}
];

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_NOTE,
    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, 'ppp / ppp-dev / ppp-udeb');
}