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HistoryJul 20, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Expat vulnerability (USN-3356-1)

2017-07-2000:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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16

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

8.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.9%

It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain external entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Expat to hang, 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-3356-1. 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(101835);
  script_version("3.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9233");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3356-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Expat vulnerability (USN-3356-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain external
entities. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
Expat to hang, 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3356-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/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:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-9233");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/07/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/07/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/07/20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64expat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64expat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-udeb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:expat");
  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) 2017-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2023 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 || '16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04', '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': 'expat', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-4ubuntu1.4'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'expat', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'lib64expat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-dev', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libexpat1-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.1.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.3'}
];

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, 'expat / lib64expat1 / lib64expat1-dev / libexpat1 / libexpat1-dev / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxlib64expat1p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64expat1
canonicalubuntu_linuxlib64expat1-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lib64expat1-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibexpat1p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibexpat1-devp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-dev
canonicalubuntu_linuxlibexpat1-udebp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexpat1-udeb
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux16.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linuxexpatp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:expat

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

8.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

69.9%