Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-19490 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2019:0904-1.
# The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(123929);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2020/01/23");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-19490", "CVE-2018-19491", "CVE-2018-19492");

  script_name(english:"SUSE SLES15 Security Update : gnuplot (SUSE-SU-2019:0904-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update for gnuplot fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-19492: Fixed a buffer overflow in cairotrm_options function
(bsc#1117463)

CVE-2018-19491: Fixed a buffer overlow in the PS_options function
(bsc#1117464)

CVE-2018-19490: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in the
df_generate_ascii_array_entry function (bsc#1117465)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the SUSE 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://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117463"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117464"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117465"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19490/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19491/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19492/"
  );
  # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-20190904-1/
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?a8e5cd83"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15:zypper in -t
patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-2019-904=1"
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnuplot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnuplot-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gnuplot-debugsource");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/11/23");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/04/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/04/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES15)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES15", "SUSE " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu);

sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel");
if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0";
if (os_ver == "SLES15" && (! preg(pattern:"^(0)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES15 SP0", os_ver + " SP" + sp);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES15", sp:"0", reference:"gnuplot-5.2.2-3.3.29")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES15", sp:"0", reference:"gnuplot-debuginfo-5.2.2-3.3.29")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SLES15", sp:"0", reference:"gnuplot-debugsource-5.2.2-3.3.29")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gnuplot");
}