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nessusUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.UBUNTU_USN-504-1.NASL
HistoryNov 10, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : emacs21 vulnerability (USN-504-1)

2007-11-1000:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
www.tenable.com
8

7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.102 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.0%

Hendrik Tews discovered that emacs21 did not correctly handle certain GIF images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted GIF, a remote attacker could cause emacs21 to crash, resulting in a 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.

#%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-504-1. 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(28108);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-2833");
  script_bugtraq_id(24570);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"504-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : emacs21 vulnerability (USN-504-1)");
  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:
"Hendrik Tews discovered that emacs21 did not correctly handle certain
GIF images. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted GIF, a
remote attacker could cause emacs21 to crash, resulting in a 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/504-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  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_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-el");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-nox");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-bin-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-el");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-nox");
  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:"2007/08/28");
  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:"emacs21", pkgver:"21.4a-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"emacs21-bin-common", pkgver:"21.4a-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"emacs21-common", pkgver:"21.4a-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"emacs21-el", pkgver:"21.4a-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"emacs21-nox", pkgver:"21.4a-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"emacs21", pkgver:"21.4a-6ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"emacs21-bin-common", pkgver:"21.4a-6ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"emacs21-common", pkgver:"21.4a-6ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"emacs21-el", pkgver:"21.4a-6ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"emacs21-nox", pkgver:"21.4a-6ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs-el", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs-nox", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs21", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs21-bin-common", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs21-common", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs21-el", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"emacs21-nox", pkgver:"21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    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, "emacs / emacs-el / emacs-nox / emacs21 / emacs21-bin-common / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs-elp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-el
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs-noxp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs-nox
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs21p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs21-bin-commonp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-bin-common
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs21-commonp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-common
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs21-elp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-el
canonicalubuntu_linuxemacs21-noxp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:emacs21-nox
canonicalubuntu_linux6.06cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux6.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10
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7.8 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.102 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.0%