CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
81.0%
It was discovered that OpenSSL did not properly perform signature verification on DSA and ECDSA keys. If user or automated system connected to a malicious server or a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information.
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-704-1. 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(36382);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5077");
script_bugtraq_id(33150);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"704-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : openssl vulnerability (USN-704-1)");
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:
"It was discovered that OpenSSL did not properly perform signature
verification on DSA and ECDSA keys. If user or automated system
connected to a malicious server or a remote attacker were able to
perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to
view sensitive information.
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/704-1/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/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_cwe_id(20);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl-doc");
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:7.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/07");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2009-2018 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:"^(6\.06|7\.10|8\.04|8\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 7.10 / 8.04 / 8.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libssl-dev", pkgver:"0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.6")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8", pkgver:"0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.6")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8-dbg", pkgver:"0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.6")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"openssl", pkgver:"0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.6")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libssl-dev", pkgver:"0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8", pkgver:"0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8-dbg", pkgver:"0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.10", pkgname:"openssl", pkgver:"0.9.8e-5ubuntu3.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libssl-dev", pkgver:"0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.4")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8", pkgver:"0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.4")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8-dbg", pkgver:"0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.4")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"openssl", pkgver:"0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.4")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"openssl-doc", pkgver:"0.9.8g-4ubuntu3.4")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libssl-dev", pkgver:"0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8", pkgver:"0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libssl0.9.8-dbg", pkgver:"0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"openssl", pkgver:"0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"openssl-doc", pkgver:"0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1")) 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, "libssl-dev / libssl0.9.8 / libssl0.9.8-dbg / openssl / openssl-doc");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssl0.9.8-dbg | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8-dbg |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssl0.9.8 | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl0.9.8 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | openssl-doc | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl-doc |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | openssl | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openssl |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | libssl-dev | p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libssl-dev |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.10 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10 |
canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts |