CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
60.9%
USN-974-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The fixes for CVE-2010-2240 caused failures for Xen hosts. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the memory manager did not properly handle when applications grow stacks into adjacent memory regions. A local attacker could exploit this to gain control of certain applications, potentially leading to privilege escalation, as demonstrated in attacks against the X server.
(CVE-2010-2240)
Kees Cook discovered that under certain situations the ioctl subsystem for DRM did not properly sanitize its arguments. A local attacker could exploit this to read previously freed kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2803)
Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Controller Area Network (CAN) subsystem when setting up frame content and filtering certain messages. An attacker could send specially crafted CAN traffic to crash the system or gain root privileges. (CVE-2010-2959).
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.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-974-2. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description)
{
script_id(48904);
script_version("1.13");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:26");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2240", "CVE-2010-2803", "CVE-2010-2959");
script_xref(name:"USN", value:"974-2");
script_name(english:"Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux regression (USN-974-2)");
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:
"USN-974-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The fixes for
CVE-2010-2240 caused failures for Xen hosts. This update fixes the
problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the
memory manager did not properly handle when applications grow stacks
into adjacent memory regions. A local attacker could exploit this to
gain control of certain applications, potentially leading to privilege
escalation, as demonstrated in attacks against the X server.
(CVE-2010-2240)
Kees Cook discovered that under certain situations the ioctl
subsystem for DRM did not properly sanitize its arguments. A
local attacker could exploit this to read previously freed
kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2010-2803)
Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Controller
Area Network (CAN) subsystem when setting up frame content
and filtering certain messages. An attacker could send
specially crafted CAN traffic to crash the system or gain
root privileges. (CVE-2010-2959).
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/974-2/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A: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_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-doc-2.6.24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-386");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-generic");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-openvz");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-rt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-server");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-virtual");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-headers-2.6-xen");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-386");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-generic");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-lpia");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-lpiacompat");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-openvz");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-rt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-server");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-virtual");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-2.6-xen");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-debug-2.6-386");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-debug-2.6-generic");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-debug-2.6-server");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-image-debug-2.6-virtual");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-kernel-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-libc-dev");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:linux-source-2.6.24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2010/09/03");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/08/26");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/08/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2010-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl", "linux_alt_patch_detect.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("ksplice.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 (! preg(pattern:"^(8\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 8.04", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
if (get_one_kb_item("Host/ksplice/kernel-cves"))
{
rm_kb_item(name:"Host/uptrack-uname-r");
cve_list = make_list("CVE-2010-2240", "CVE-2010-2803", "CVE-2010-2959");
if (ksplice_cves_check(cve_list))
{
audit(AUDIT_PATCH_INSTALLED, "KSplice hotfix for USN-974-2");
}
else
{
_ubuntu_report = ksplice_reporting_text();
}
}
flag = 0;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-doc-2.6.24", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-386", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-generic", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-openvz", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-rt", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-server", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-virtual", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-headers-2.6.24-28-xen", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-386", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-generic", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-lpia", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-lpiacompat", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-openvz", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-rt", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-server", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-virtual", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-2.6.24-28-xen", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-debug-2.6.24-28-386", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-debug-2.6.24-28-generic", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-debug-2.6.24-28-server", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-image-debug-2.6.24-28-virtual", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-kernel-devel", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-libc-dev", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"8.04", pkgname:"linux-source-2.6.24", pkgver:"2.6.24-28.77")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
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, "linux-doc-2.6.24 / linux-headers-2.6 / linux-headers-2.6-386 / etc");
}