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HistoryMay 14, 2021 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-4954-1)

2021-05-1400:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2021-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2021-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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ubuntu 16.04 lts
gnu c library
vulnerabilities
usn-4954-1
denial of service
assertion failure
application exit
incorrect result
exploit
signed comparison
armv7
memcpy()
gnu glibc
undefined behavior
out-of-bounds memory
remote code execution
segmentation fault
nessus scanning limitations

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

CVSS3

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.074

Percentile

94.1%

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4954-1 advisory.

Jason Royes and Samuel Dytrych discovered that the memcpy() implementation for 32 bit ARM processors in     the GNU C Library contained an integer underflow vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this to     cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6096)

It was discovered that the POSIX regex implementation in the GNU C Library did not properly parse     alternatives. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2009-5155)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

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#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4954-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
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  script_id(149477);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/27");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-5155", "CVE-2020-6096");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4954-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerabilities (USN-4954-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in
the USN-4954-1 advisory.

    Jason Royes and Samuel Dytrych discovered that the memcpy() implementation for 32 bit ARM processors in
    the GNU C Library contained an integer underflow vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this to
    cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-6096)

    It was discovered that the POSIX regex implementation in the GNU C Library did not properly parse
    alternatives. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2009-5155)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-4954-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:H/PR:N/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-2020-6096");

  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:"2019/01/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/14");

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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:glibc-source");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc-bin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc-dev-bin");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-amd64");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-armel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev-amd64");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev-armel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev-i386");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev-ppc64");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev-s390");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-dev-x32");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-i386");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-pic");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-ppc64");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-s390");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-udeb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libc6-x32");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:locales");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:locales-all");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:multiarch-support");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:nscd");
  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) 2021-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2021-2024 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 (! ('16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 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': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'glibc-source', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc-bin', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc-dev-bin', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-amd64', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-armel', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev-amd64', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev-armel', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev-i386', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev-ppc64', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev-s390', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-dev-x32', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-i386', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-pic', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-ppc64', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-s390', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-udeb', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libc6-x32', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'locales', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'locales-all', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'multiarch-support', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'nscd', 'pkgver': '2.23-0ubuntu11.3'}
];

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, 'glibc-source / libc-bin / libc-dev-bin / libc6 / libc6-amd64 / etc');
}

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

CVSS3

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

7.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.074

Percentile

94.1%