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Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-973-1)

🗓️ 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AGType 
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The remote host is missing an update for the 'koffice' package(s) announced via the USN-973-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Xpdf used in KOffice contained multiple security issues in its JBIG2 decoder. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that the Xpdf used in KOffice contained multiple security issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. KOffice in Ubuntu 9.04 uses a very old version of Xpdf to import PDFs into KWord. Upstream KDE no longer supports PDF import in KOffice and as a result it was dropped in Ubuntu 9.10. While an attempt was made to fix the above issues, the maintenance burden for supporting this very old version of Xpdf outweighed its utility, and PDF import is now also disabled in Ubuntu 9.04

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.840481");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-0146", "CVE-2009-0147", "CVE-2009-0165", "CVE-2009-0166", "CVE-2009-0195", "CVE-2009-0799", "CVE-2009-0800", "CVE-2009-1179", "CVE-2009-1180", "CVE-2009-1181", "CVE-2009-3606", "CVE-2009-3608", "CVE-2009-3609");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-08-20 12:57:11 +0000 (Fri, 20 Aug 2010)");
  script_version("2024-02-02T05:06:04+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-02 05:06:04 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");

  script_name("Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-973-1)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
  script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/ubuntu_linux", "ssh/login/packages", re:"ssh/login/release=UBUNTU9\.04");

  script_xref(name:"Advisory-ID", value:"USN-973-1");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-973-1");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'koffice' package(s) announced via the USN-973-1 advisory.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Will Dormann, Alin Rad Pop, Braden Thomas, and Drew Yao discovered that the
Xpdf used in KOffice contained multiple security issues in its JBIG2
decoder. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted
PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary
code with privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0146,
CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-0799, CVE-2009-0800, CVE-2009-1179,
CVE-2009-1180, CVE-2009-1181)

It was discovered that the Xpdf used in KOffice contained multiple security
issues when parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system
were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a
denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2009-3606, CVE-2009-3608, CVE-2009-3609)

KOffice in Ubuntu 9.04 uses a very old version of Xpdf to import PDFs into
KWord. Upstream KDE no longer supports PDF import in KOffice and as a
result it was dropped in Ubuntu 9.10. While an attempt was made to fix the
above issues, the maintenance burden for supporting this very old version
of Xpdf outweighed its utility, and PDF import is now also disabled in
Ubuntu 9.04.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"'koffice' package(s) on Ubuntu 9.04.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

release = dpkg_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
  exit(0);

res = "";
report = "";

if(release == "UBUNTU9.04") {

  if(!isnull(res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"kword", ver:"1:1.6.3-7ubuntu6.1", rls:"UBUNTU9.04"))) {
    report += res;
  }

  if(report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
  } else if(__pkg_match) {
    exit(99);
  }
  exit(0);
}

exit(0);

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