CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
93.7%
Jose Avila III and Robert Tasarz discovered that the KDE HTML library did not correctly parse HTML comments inside the ‘title’ tag. By tricking a Konqueror user into visiting a malicious website, an attacker could bypass cross-site scripting protections.
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-420-1. 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(28012);
script_version("1.15");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-0537");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"420-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : kdelibs vulnerability (USN-420-1)");
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:
"Jose Avila III and Robert Tasarz discovered that the KDE HTML library
did not correctly parse HTML comments inside the 'title' tag. By
tricking a Konqueror user into visiting a malicious website, an
attacker could bypass cross-site scripting protections.
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/420-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_cwe_id(79);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4-doc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:kdelibs4c2a");
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:"2007/02/06");
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:"kdelibs", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2", pkgver:"4:3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"5.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2-dbg", pkgver:"3.4.3-0ubuntu2.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs-bin", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs-dbg", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2a", pkgver:"4:3.5.2-0ubuntu18.2")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"kdelibs", pkgver:"3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-data", pkgver:"3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"kdelibs-dbg", pkgver:"3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-dev", pkgver:"3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4-doc", pkgver:"3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"kdelibs4c2a", pkgver:"4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
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, "kdelibs / kdelibs-bin / kdelibs-data / kdelibs-dbg / kdelibs4-dev / etc");
}