Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-4974 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Mega-Nerd Libsndfile

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-525-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(28130);
  script_version("1.15");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:33:01");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4974");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"525-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : libsndfile vulnerability (USN-525-1)");
  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:
"Robert Buchholz discovered that libsndfile did not correctly validate
the size of its memory buffers. If a user were tricked into playing a
specially crafted FLAC file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary
code with user privileges.

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/525-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected libsndfile1, libsndfile1-dev and / or
sndfile-programs packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/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:libsndfile1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsndfile1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sndfile-programs");
  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:6.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/10/04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/11/10");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2007-2019 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:"^(6\.06|6\.10|7\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 6.06 / 6.10 / 7.04", "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:"libsndfile1", pkgver:"1.0.12-3ubuntu1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"libsndfile1-dev", pkgver:"1.0.12-3ubuntu1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.06", pkgname:"sndfile-programs", pkgver:"1.0.12-3ubuntu1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libsndfile1", pkgver:"1.0.16-1ubuntu0.6.10.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"libsndfile1-dev", pkgver:"1.0.16-1ubuntu0.6.10.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"6.10", pkgname:"sndfile-programs", pkgver:"1.0.16-1ubuntu0.6.10.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libsndfile1", pkgver:"1.0.16-1ubuntu0.7.04.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"libsndfile1-dev", pkgver:"1.0.16-1ubuntu0.7.04.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"7.04", pkgname:"sndfile-programs", pkgver:"1.0.16-1ubuntu0.7.04.1")) 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, "libsndfile1 / libsndfile1-dev / sndfile-programs");
}