6.5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.063 Low
EPSS
Percentile
93.7%
Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the X.Org X server. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either locally or remotely, could use these issues to cause the X server to crash or execute arbitrary code resulting in possible privilege escalation.
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-2436-1. 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(79852);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2014-8091",
"CVE-2014-8092",
"CVE-2014-8093",
"CVE-2014-8094",
"CVE-2014-8095",
"CVE-2014-8096",
"CVE-2014-8097",
"CVE-2014-8098",
"CVE-2014-8099",
"CVE-2014-8100",
"CVE-2014-8101",
"CVE-2014-8102",
"CVE-2014-8103"
);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"2436-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : X.Org X server vulnerabilities (USN-2436-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Ilja van Sprundel discovered a multitude of security issues in the
X.Org X server. An attacker able to connect to an X server, either
locally or remotely, could use these issues to cause the X server to
crash or execute arbitrary code resulting in possible privilege
escalation.
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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2436-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2014-8103");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2014-8091");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2014/12/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/12/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/12/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-core");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-core-udeb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-xmir");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xvfb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdmx");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdmx-tools");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xnest");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-server-source");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-common");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xephyr");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2014-2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include('debian_package.inc');
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xdmx', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xdmx-tools', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xnest', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xorg-server-source', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xserver-common', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xserver-xephyr', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xserver-xorg-core', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xserver-xorg-core-udeb', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xserver-xorg-dev', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xserver-xorg-xmir', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'xvfb', 'pkgver': '2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.4'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var osver = NULL;
var pkgname = NULL;
var pkgver = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : ubuntu_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'xdmx / xdmx-tools / xnest / xorg-server-source / xserver-common / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xserver-xorg-core | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-core |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xserver-xorg-core-udeb | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-core-udeb |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xserver-xorg-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xserver-xorg-xmir | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xserver-xorg-xmir |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xvfb | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xvfb |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xdmx | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdmx |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xdmx-tools | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xdmx-tools |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xnest | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xnest |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | xorg-server-source | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:xorg-server-source |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8091
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8092
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8093
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8094
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8095
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8096
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8097
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8098
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8099
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8100
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8101
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8102
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8103
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2436-1