The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 21.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5075-1 advisory.
-dSAFER
option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3781)Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#%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-5075-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(153211);
script_version("1.9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/09");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-3781");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"5075-1");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2021-B-0055-S");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Ghostscript vulnerability (USN-5075-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 21.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in
the USN-5075-1 advisory.
- A trivial sandbox (enabled with the `-dSAFER` option) escape flaw was found in the ghostscript interpreter
by injecting a specially crafted pipe command. This flaw allows a specially crafted document to execute
arbitrary commands on the system in the context of the ghostscript interpreter. The highest threat from
this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2021-3781)
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5075-1");
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:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-3781");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/09/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/09/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/09/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript-x");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2021-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2021-2024 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('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 (! ('20.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 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': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'ghostscript', 'pkgver': '9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'ghostscript-x', 'pkgver': '9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'libgs-dev', 'pkgver': '9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'libgs9', 'pkgver': '9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3'},
{'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'libgs9-common', 'pkgver': '9.50~dfsg-5ubuntu4.3'}
];
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, 'ghostscript / ghostscript-x / libgs-dev / libgs9 / libgs9-common');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 20.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | ghostscript | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | ghostscript-x | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ghostscript-x |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libgs-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libgs9 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libgs9-common | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgs9-common |