CVSS2
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
EPSS
Percentile
92.9%
Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain messages in the ICQ protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash.
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-796-1. 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(39619);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1889");
script_bugtraq_id(35530);
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"796-1");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-796-1)");
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:
"Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain
messages in the ICQ protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash.
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/796-1/"
);
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:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");
script_cwe_id(399);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-bin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-data");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dbg");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dev");
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:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/07/06");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/07/07");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2009-2019 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:"^(8\.04|8\.10|9\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 8.04 / 8.10 / 9.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"finch", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"finch-dev", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"gaim", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libpurple-bin", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libpurple-dev", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libpurple0", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"pidgin", pkgver:"1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"pidgin-data", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"pidgin-dbg", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"pidgin-dev", pkgver:"2.4.1-1ubuntu2.5")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"finch", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"finch-dev", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libpurple-bin", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libpurple-dev", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libpurple0", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"pidgin", pkgver:"1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"pidgin-data", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"pidgin-dbg", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"pidgin-dev", pkgver:"2.5.2-0ubuntu1.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"finch", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"finch-dev", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libpurple-bin", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libpurple-dev", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libpurple0", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"pidgin", pkgver:"1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"pidgin-data", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"pidgin-dbg", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"pidgin-dev", pkgver:"2.5.5-1ubuntu8.3")) 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, "finch / finch-dev / gaim / libpurple-bin / libpurple-dev / etc");
}