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nessusUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.UBUNTU_USN-705-1.NASL
HistoryApr 23, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-705-1)

2009-04-2300:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
www.tenable.com
15

CVSS2

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

EPSS

0.007

Percentile

81.2%

It was discovered that NTP did not properly perform signature verification. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass certificate validation via a malformed SSL/TLS signature.

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-705-1. 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(37876);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5077", "CVE-2009-0021", "CVE-2009-0046", "CVE-2009-0047", "CVE-2009-0048", "CVE-2009-0049", "CVE-2009-0124", "CVE-2009-0125", "CVE-2009-0127", "CVE-2009-0128", "CVE-2009-0130");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"705-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-705-1)");
  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 NTP did not properly perform signature
verification. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass
certificate validation via a malformed SSL/TLS signature.

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/705-1/"
  );
  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:P/A:P");
  script_cwe_id(20, 287);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntp-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntp-refclock");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntp-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntp-simple");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntpdate");
  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:7.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 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|7\.10|8\.04|8\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 7.10 / 8.04 / 8.10", "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:"ntp", pkgver:"4.2.0a+stable-8.1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"ntp-doc", pkgver:"4.2.0a+stable-8.1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"ntp-refclock", pkgver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"ntp-server", pkgver:"4.2.0a+stable-8.1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"ntp-simple", pkgver:"1:4.2.0a+stable-8.1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"ntpdate", pkgver:"4.2.0a+stable-8.1ubuntu6.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"ntp", pkgver:"1:4.2.4p0+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"ntp-doc", pkgver:"4.2.4p0+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"ntpdate", pkgver:"4.2.4p0+dfsg-1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"ntp", pkgver:"1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"ntp-doc", pkgver:"4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"ntpdate", pkgver:"4.2.4p4+dfsg-3ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"ntp", pkgver:"1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"ntp-doc", pkgver:"4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"ntpdate", pkgver:"4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2")) 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, "ntp / ntp-doc / ntp-refclock / ntp-server / ntp-simple / ntpdate");
}

CVSS2

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

EPSS

0.007

Percentile

81.2%