Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : newt vulnerability (USN-837-1)

#%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-837-1. 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(41624);
  script_version("1.16");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/19");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2905");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"837-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : newt vulnerability (USN-837-1)");
  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:
"Miroslav Lichvar discovered that Newt incorrectly handled rendering in
a text box. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial of
service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking the program.

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/837-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/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(119);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnewt-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnewt-pic");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnewt0.51");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnewt0.52");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:newt-tcl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-newt");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-newt-dbg");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:whiptail");
  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: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:"2009/09/24");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/09/25");
  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|8\.04|8\.10|9\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 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:"6.06", pkgname:"libnewt-dev", pkgver:"0.51.6-31ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libnewt-pic", pkgver:"0.51.6-31ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libnewt0.51", pkgver:"0.51.6-31ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"newt-tcl", pkgver:"0.51.6-31ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"python-newt", pkgver:"0.51.6-31ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"whiptail", pkgver:"0.51.6-31ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libnewt-dev", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libnewt-pic", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"libnewt0.52", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"newt-tcl", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"python-newt", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"python-newt-dbg", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"whiptail", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.2ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libnewt-dev", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libnewt-pic", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"libnewt0.52", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"newt-tcl", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"python-newt", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"python-newt-dbg", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.10", pkgname:"whiptail", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libnewt-dev", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libnewt-pic", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"libnewt0.52", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"newt-tcl", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"python-newt", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"python-newt-dbg", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"9.04", pkgname:"whiptail", pkgver:"0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3.1")) 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, "libnewt-dev / libnewt-pic / libnewt0.51 / libnewt0.52 / newt-tcl / etc");
}