CVSS2
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
Percentile
88.5%
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the PCRE, a widely used library that provides Perl compatible regular expressions. Specially crafted regular expressions triggered a buffer overflow. On systems that accept arbitrary regular expressions from untrusted users, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application using the library.
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-173-1. 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(20580);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2491");
script_bugtraq_id(14620);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"173-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : pcre3 vulnerability (USN-173-1)");
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:
"A buffer overflow has been discovered in the PCRE, a widely used
library that provides Perl compatible regular expressions. Specially
crafted regular expressions triggered a buffer overflow. On systems
that accept arbitrary regular expressions from untrusted users, this
could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the application using the library.
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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:ND");
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:libpcre3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pcregrep");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pgrep");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/08/23");
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) 2005-2019 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|5\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libpcre3", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.4.10")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"libpcre3-dev", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.4.10")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"pcregrep", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.4.10")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"4.10", pkgname:"pgrep", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.4.10")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"libpcre3", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.5.04")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"libpcre3-dev", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.5.04")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"pcregrep", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.5.04")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"pgrep", pkgver:"4.5-1.1ubuntu0.5.04")) 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, "libpcre3 / libpcre3-dev / pcregrep / pgrep");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpcre3 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libpcre3-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | pcregrep | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pcregrep |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | pgrep | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pgrep |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 4.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 5.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04 |