6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.052 Low
EPSS
Percentile
93.0%
Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as gnome-terminal, did not correctly filter window and icon title request escape codes. If a user were tricked into viewing specially crafted output in their terminal, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary commands with user privileges.
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.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-962-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(47742);
script_version("1.12");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:26");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0070", "CVE-2010-2713");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"962-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : vte vulnerability (USN-962-1)");
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:
"Janne Snabb discovered that applications using VTE, such as
gnome-terminal, did not correctly filter window and icon title request
escape codes. If a user were tricked into viewing specially crafted
output in their terminal, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary
commands with user privileges.
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/962-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte9");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vte");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vte-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2003/03/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/07/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/07/16");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2010-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2010-2019 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 (! preg(pattern:"^(9\.04|9\.10|10\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libvte-common", pkgver:"0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libvte-dev", pkgver:"0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libvte-doc", pkgver:"0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libvte9", pkgver:"1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"python-vte", pkgver:"0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"python-vte-dbg", pkgver:"0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.10", pkgname:"libvte-common", pkgver:"0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.10", pkgname:"libvte-dev", pkgver:"0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.10", pkgname:"libvte-doc", pkgver:"0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.10", pkgname:"libvte9", pkgver:"1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.10", pkgname:"python-vte", pkgver:"0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.10", pkgname:"python-vte-dbg", pkgver:"0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libvte-common", pkgver:"0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libvte-dev", pkgver:"0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libvte-doc", pkgver:"0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"libvte9", pkgver:"1:0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"python-vte", pkgver:"0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"python-vte-dbg", pkgver:"0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1")) 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, "libvte-common / libvte-dev / libvte-doc / libvte9 / python-vte / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvte-common | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-common |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvte-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvte-doc | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte-doc |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libvte9 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvte9 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | python-vte | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vte |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | python-vte-dbg | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vte-dbg |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 9.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 9.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10 |