7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
65.7%
USN-3816-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in systemd. However, the fix for CVE-2018-6954 was not sufficient. This update provides the remaining fixes.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Jann Horn discovered that unit_deserialize incorrectly handled status messages above a certain length. A local attacker could potentially exploit this via NotifyAccess to inject arbitrary state across re-execution and obtain root privileges. (CVE-2018-15686)
Jann Horn discovered a race condition in chown_one(). A local attacker could potentially exploit this by setting arbitrary permissions on certain files to obtain root privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-15687)
It was discovered that systemd-tmpfiles mishandled symlinks in non-terminal path components. A local attacker could potentially exploit this by gaining ownership of certain files to obtain root privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-6954).
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-3816-2. 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(119043);
script_version("1.11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/21");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-6954");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3816-2");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : systemd vulnerability (USN-3816-2)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"USN-3816-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in systemd. However, the fix
for CVE-2018-6954 was not sufficient. This update provides the
remaining fixes.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Jann Horn discovered that unit_deserialize incorrectly handled status
messages above a certain length. A local attacker could potentially
exploit this via NotifyAccess to inject arbitrary state across
re-execution and obtain root privileges. (CVE-2018-15686)
Jann Horn discovered a race condition in chown_one(). A local attacker
could potentially exploit this by setting arbitrary permissions on
certain files to obtain root privileges. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-15687)
It was discovered that systemd-tmpfiles mishandled symlinks in
non-terminal path components. A local attacker could potentially
exploit this by gaining ownership of certain files to obtain root
privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04
LTS. (CVE-2018-6954).
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-3816-2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-2018-6954");
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:"2018/02/13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/11/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-container");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-coredump");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-journal-remote");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-sysv");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-tests");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udev-udeb");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-myhostname");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-mymachines");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-resolve");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-systemd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-systemd");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsystemd-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsystemd0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libudev-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libudev1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libudev1-udeb");
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) 2018-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2023 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 (! ('16.04' >< os_release || '18.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04', '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': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-myhostname', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-mymachines', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-resolve', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-systemd', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libsystemd-dev', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libsystemd0', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libudev-dev', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libudev1', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libudev1-udeb', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-container', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-coredump', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-journal-remote', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-sysv', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'udev', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'udev-udeb', 'pkgver': '229-4ubuntu21.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-myhostname', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-mymachines', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-resolve', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libnss-systemd', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libpam-systemd', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libsystemd-dev', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libsystemd0', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libudev-dev', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libudev1', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'libudev1-udeb', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-container', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-coredump', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-journal-remote', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-sysv', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'systemd-tests', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'udev', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'},
{'osver': '18.04', 'pkgname': 'udev-udeb', 'pkgver': '237-3ubuntu10.9'}
];
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_HOLE,
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, 'libnss-myhostname / libnss-mymachines / libnss-resolve / etc');
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | systemd | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | systemd-container | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-container |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | systemd-coredump | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-coredump |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | systemd-journal-remote | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-journal-remote |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | systemd-sysv | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-sysv |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | systemd-tests | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:systemd-tests |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | udev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | udev-udeb | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udev-udeb |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts |
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
7.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
65.7%