CVSS2
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
84.8%
It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain malformed messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
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-1605-1. 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(62512);
script_version("1.9");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:28");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1820");
script_bugtraq_id(53775);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1605-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : quagga vulnerability (USN-1605-1)");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain malformed
messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.
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/1605-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected quagga package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:quagga");
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:11.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/06/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/10/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/10/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 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|11\.04|11\.10|12\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04 / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"quagga", pkgver:"0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.04", pkgname:"quagga", pkgver:"0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.11.04.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"quagga", pkgver:"0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.11.10.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"quagga", pkgver:"0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.3")) 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, "quagga");
}