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HistoryJun 13, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : exim4 vulnerability (USN-1135-1)

2011-06-1300:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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CVSS2

7.5

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

EPSS

0.066

Percentile

93.8%

It was discovered that the Exim daemon did not correctly handle certain DKIM identities. A remote attacker could send specially crafted email to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.

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-1135-1. 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(55096);
  script_version("1.10");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1407");
  script_bugtraq_id(47836);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1135-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : exim4 vulnerability (USN-1135-1)");
  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 the Exim daemon did not correctly handle
certain DKIM identities. A remote attacker could send specially
crafted email to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.

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/1135-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected exim4-daemon-custom, exim4-daemon-heavy and / or
exim4-daemon-light 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_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exim4-daemon-custom");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exim4-daemon-heavy");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exim4-daemon-light");
  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:10.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2011/05/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2011/05/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/06/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 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:"^(10\.04|10\.10|11\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 / 11.04", "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:"10.04", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-custom", pkgver:"4.71-3ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-heavy", pkgver:"4.71-3ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-light", pkgver:"4.71-3ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-custom", pkgver:"4.72-1ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-heavy", pkgver:"4.72-1ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.10", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-light", pkgver:"4.72-1ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-custom", pkgver:"4.74-1ubuntu1.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-heavy", pkgver:"4.74-1ubuntu1.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"exim4-daemon-light", pkgver:"4.74-1ubuntu1.2")) 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, "exim4-daemon-custom / exim4-daemon-heavy / exim4-daemon-light");
}

CVSS2

7.5

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

EPSS

0.066

Percentile

93.8%