2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the perl package. The utility ‘instmodsh’, the Perl package ‘PPPort.pm’, and several test scripts (which are not shipped and only used during build) created temporary files in an insecure way, which could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program, or building the perl package, respectively.
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-16-1. 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(20564);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0976");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"16-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 : perl vulnerabilities (USN-16-1)");
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:
"Recently, Trustix Secure Linux discovered some vulnerabilities in the
perl package. The utility 'instmodsh', the Perl package 'PPPort.pm',
and several test scripts (which are not shipped and only used during
build) created temporary files in an insecure way, which could allow a
symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the
privileges of the user invoking the program, or building the perl
package, respectively.
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:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcgi-fast-perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl5.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-base");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-debug");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-suid");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/11/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/15");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2004-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2006-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
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:"^(4\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libcgi-fast-perl", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libperl-dev", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libperl5.8", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"perl", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"perl-base", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"perl-debug", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"perl-doc", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"perl-modules", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"perl-suid", pkgver:"5.8.4-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
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, "libcgi-fast-perl / libperl-dev / libperl5.8 / perl / perl-base / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libcgi-fast-perl | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcgi-fast-perl |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libperl-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libperl5.8 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libperl5.8 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | perl | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | perl-base | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-base |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | perl-debug | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-debug |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | perl-doc | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-doc |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | perl-modules | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-modules |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | perl-suid | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perl-suid |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 4.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10 |