7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
33.2%
It was discovered that KDE did not properly handle certificates with NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509 certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications.
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-833-1. 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(41013);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2702");
script_bugtraq_id(36229);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"833-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : kde4libs, kdelibs vulnerability (USN-833-1)");
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 KDE did not properly handle certificates with
NULL characters in the Subject Alternative Name field of X.509
certificates. An attacker could exploit this to perform a man in the
middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted
communications.
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/833-1/"
);
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(310);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplasma-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libplasma3");
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:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/09/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/09/18");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2009-2018 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:"^(8\.04|8\.10|9\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 8.04 / 8.10 / 9.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-dbg", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2a", pkgver:"4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu6.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu6.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-dbg", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu6.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu6.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.5.10-0ubuntu6.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2a", pkgver:"4:3.5.10-0ubuntu6.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs5", pkgver:"4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs5-data", pkgver:"4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs5-dbg", pkgver:"4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs5-dev", pkgver:"4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"kdelibs5-doc", pkgver:"4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs-dbg", pkgver:"3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2a", pkgver:"4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs5", pkgver:"4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs5-data", pkgver:"4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs5-dbg", pkgver:"4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"kdelibs5-dev", pkgver:"4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libplasma-dev", pkgver:"4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libplasma3", pkgver:"4.2.2-0ubuntu5.2")) 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, "kdelibs / kdelibs-bin / kdelibs-data / kdelibs-dbg / kdelibs4-dev / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs-bin | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-bin |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs-data | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs-dbg | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-dbg |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs4-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs4-doc | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs4c2a | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs5 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs5-data | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-data |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kdelibs5-dbg | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs5-dbg |