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HistoryNov 29, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 7.10 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-548-1)

2007-11-2900:00:00
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
7

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.061 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.6%

It was discovered that Pidgin did not correctly handle certain logging events. A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages and cause the application to crash, leading to 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-548-1. 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(28360);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4999");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"548-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 7.10 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-548-1)");
  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:
"It was discovered that Pidgin did not correctly handle certain logging
events. A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages and
cause the application to crash, leading to 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/548-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_cwe_id(20);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-bin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-data");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dbg");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/11/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/29");
  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:"^(7\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 7.10", "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:"7.10", pkgname:"finch", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"finch-dev", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"gaim", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libpurple-bin", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libpurple-dev", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libpurple0", pkgver:"1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"pidgin", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"pidgin-data", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"pidgin-dbg", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"pidgin-dev", pkgver:"2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1")) 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, "finch / finch-dev / gaim / libpurple-bin / libpurple-dev / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxfinchp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch
canonicalubuntu_linuxfinch-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxgaimp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibpurple-binp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-bin
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibpurple-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibpurple0p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple0
canonicalubuntu_linuxpidginp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin
canonicalubuntu_linuxpidgin-datap-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-data
canonicalubuntu_linuxpidgin-dbgp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dbg
canonicalubuntu_linuxpidgin-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dev
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4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.061 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.6%