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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : libapache2-mod-perl2 vulnerability (USN-488-1)

🗓️ 10 Nov 2007 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Ubuntu 6.06-7.04: libapache2-mod-perl2 CPU resource vuln (USN-488-1

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-488-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(28089);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-1349");
  script_bugtraq_id(23192);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"488-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : libapache2-mod-perl2 vulnerability (USN-488-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Alex Solovey discovered that mod_perl did not correctly validate
certain regular expression matches. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted request to a web application using mod_perl, causing
the web server to monopolize CPU resources. This could lead to a
remote denial of service.

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/488-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected libapache2-mod-perl2, libapache2-mod-perl2-dev and
/ or libapache2-mod-perl2-doc packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(399);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-perl2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-perl2-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-perl2-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/07/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  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);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! ereg(pattern:"^(6\.06|6\.10|7\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 6.10 / 7.04", "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$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2", pkgver:"2.0.2-2ubuntu1.6.06.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2-dev", pkgver:"2.0.2-2ubuntu1.6.06.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2-doc", pkgver:"2.0.2-2ubuntu1.6.06.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2", pkgver:"2.0.2-2ubuntu1.6.10.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2-dev", pkgver:"2.0.2-2ubuntu1.6.10.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2-doc", pkgver:"2.0.2-2ubuntu1.6.10.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2", pkgver:"2.0.2-2.3ubuntu1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2-dev", pkgver:"2.0.2-2.3ubuntu1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libapache2-mod-perl2-doc", pkgver:"2.0.2-2.3ubuntu1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    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, "libapache2-mod-perl2 / libapache2-mod-perl2-dev / etc");
}

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