6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.0%
Dean Gaudet discovered that the GeoIP update tool did not validate the filename responses from the update server. A malicious server, or man-in-the-middle system posing as a server, could write to arbitrary files with user privileges.
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-412-1. 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(28001);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-0159");
script_bugtraq_id(21959);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"412-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : geoip vulnerability (USN-412-1)");
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:
"Dean Gaudet discovered that the GeoIP update tool did not validate the
filename responses from the update server. A malicious server, or
man-in-the-middle system posing as a server, could write to arbitrary
files with user privileges.
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://usn.ubuntu.com/412-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Update the affected geoip-bin, libgeoip-dev and / or libgeoip1
packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:geoip-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgeoip-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgeoip1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/01/23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
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\.10|6\.06|6\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 / 6.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"geoip-bin", pkgver:"1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"libgeoip-dev", pkgver:"1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"libgeoip1", pkgver:"1.3.10-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"geoip-bin", pkgver:"1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libgeoip-dev", pkgver:"1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libgeoip1", pkgver:"1.3.14-2ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"geoip-bin", pkgver:"1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libgeoip-dev", pkgver:"1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libgeoip1", pkgver:"1.3.17-1ubuntu0.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_WARNING,
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, "geoip-bin / libgeoip-dev / libgeoip1");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | geoip-bin | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:geoip-bin |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libgeoip-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgeoip-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libgeoip1 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgeoip1 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 5.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10 |