CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%
The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3521-1 advisory.
Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory.
This update provides mitigations to address the issue, along with compatibility fixes for the corresponding Linux kernel updates.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3521-1. 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(105723);
script_version("3.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/27");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-5753");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3521-1");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2018-A-0020");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability (USN-3521-1)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced
in the USN-3521-1 advisory.
Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow
unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could
use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory.
This update provides mitigations to address the issue, along with compatibility fixes for the
corresponding Linux kernel updates.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3521-1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-5753");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_canvas", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"canvas_package", value:"CANVAS");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"in_the_news", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/01/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/01/09");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/01/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-384");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-384-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-libopencl1-375");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-libopencl1-384");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-opencl-icd-375");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-opencl-icd-384");
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:libcuda1-375");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcuda1-384");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-375");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nvidia-375-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2024 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': 'libcuda1-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libcuda1-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-375-dev', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-384-dev', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-libopencl1-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-libopencl1-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-opencl-icd-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-opencl-icd-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcuda1-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libcuda1-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-375-dev', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-384-dev', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-libopencl1-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-libopencl1-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-opencl-icd-375', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nvidia-opencl-icd-384', 'pkgver': '384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1'}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach var 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)
{
var extra = '';
extra += ubuntu_report_get();
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
extra : extra
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libcuda1-375 / libcuda1-384 / nvidia-375 / nvidia-375-dev / etc');
}
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
100.0%