7.5 High
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
0.168 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.1%
Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF import module of KOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted RTF file, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the AbiWord 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.
#%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-202-1. 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(20618);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-2971");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"202-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.04 : koffice vulnerability (USN-202-1)");
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:
"Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF import module of
KOffice. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted RTF file,
an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the AbiWord 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:"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_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:karbon");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kchart");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kformula");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kivio");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kivio-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-doc-html");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-libs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koshell");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kpresenter");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kspread");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kugar");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kword");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/10/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2006/01/15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/10/11");
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:"^(5\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 5.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"karbon", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kchart", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kformula", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kivio", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kivio-data", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"koffice", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"koffice-data", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"koffice-dev", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"koffice-doc-html", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"koffice-libs", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"koshell", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kpresenter", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kspread", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kugar", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.04", pkgname:"kword", pkgver:"1.3.5-2ubuntu1.1")) 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, "karbon / kchart / kformula / kivio / kivio-data / koffice / etc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | karbon | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:karbon |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kchart | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kchart |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kformula | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kformula |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kivio | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kivio |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | kivio-data | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kivio-data |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | koffice | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | koffice-data | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-data |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | koffice-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | koffice-doc-html | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-doc-html |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | koffice-libs | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:koffice-libs |