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HistoryOct 11, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : PCRE vulnerabilities (USN-5665-1)

2022-10-1100:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2022-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2022-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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ubuntu 16.04 esm
pcre vulnerabilities
usn-5665-1
denial of service
crafted regular expressions
application crash
remote attackers
segmentation violation
invalid unicode property

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.048

Percentile

92.7%

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5665-1 advisory.

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use     this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6004)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain Unicode encoding. A remote attacker could use this     issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7186)

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.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5665-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(166014);
  script_version("1.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/08/28");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-6004", "CVE-2017-7186");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"5665-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : PCRE vulnerabilities (USN-5665-1)");

  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 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in
the USN-5665-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use
    this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6004)

    It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain Unicode encoding. A remote attacker could use this
    issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7186)

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-5665-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-7186");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/02/16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2022/10/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2022/10/11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre16-3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre3-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcre32-3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpcrecpp0v5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pcregrep");
  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) 2022-2024 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2022-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "ubuntu_pro_sub_detect.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 ubuntu_pro_detected = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/Pro/Services/esm-apps');
ubuntu_pro_detected = !empty_or_null(ubuntu_pro_detected);

var pro_caveat_needed = FALSE;

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpcre16-3', 'pkgver': '2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpcre3', 'pkgver': '2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpcre3-dev', 'pkgver': '2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpcre32-3', 'pkgver': '2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpcrecpp0v5', 'pkgver': '2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'pcregrep', 'pkgver': '2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE}
];

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'];
  var pro_required = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['ubuntu_pro'])) pro_required = package_array['ubuntu_pro'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) {
        flag++;
        if (!ubuntu_pro_detected && !pro_caveat_needed) pro_caveat_needed = pro_required;
    }
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = '';
  if (pro_caveat_needed) {
    extra += 'NOTE: This vulnerability check contains fixes that apply to packages only \n';
    extra += 'available in Ubuntu ESM repositories. Access to these package security updates \n';
    extra += 'require an Ubuntu Pro subscription.\n\n';
  }
  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, 'libpcre16-3 / libpcre3 / libpcre3-dev / libpcre32-3 / libpcrecpp0v5 / etc');
}

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.048

Percentile

92.7%