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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pcre3 vulnerability (USN-581-1)

🗓️ 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Ubuntu PCRE3 vulnerability in long UTF8 strings for LTS 6.06 / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.1

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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-581-1. 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(31166);
  script_version("1.18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-0674");
  script_bugtraq_id(27786);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"581-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pcre3 vulnerability (USN-581-1)");
  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 PCRE did not correctly handle very long strings
containing UTF8 sequences. In certain situations, an attacker could
exploit applications linked against PCRE by tricking a user or
automated system in processing a malicious regular expression leading
to a denial of service or possibly arbitrary code execution.

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/581-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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(119);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcrecpp0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pcregrep");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pgrep");
  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:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/02/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/02/25");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2008-2019 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|7\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 6.10 / 7.04 / 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:"6.06", pkgname:"libpcre3", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libpcre3-dev", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libpcrecpp0", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"pcregrep", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"pgrep", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libpcre3", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libpcre3-dev", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libpcrecpp0", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"pcregrep", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libpcre3", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libpcre3-dev", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libpcrecpp0", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"pcregrep", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libpcre3", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libpcre3-dev", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libpcrecpp0", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"pcregrep", pkgver:"7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.2")) 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, "libpcre3 / libpcre3-dev / libpcrecpp0 / pcregrep / pgrep");
}

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19 Jan 2021 00:00Current
5.9Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.9
CVSS 27.5
EPSS0.05914
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