An issue was discovered in CImg v.220. DoS occurs when loading a crafted bmp image that triggers an allocation failure in load_bmp in CImg.h.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4039-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that allocation failures could occur in CImg when loading

    crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

    denial of service. (CVE-2018-7587)

    It was discovered that a heap-based buffer over-read existed in CImg when

    loading crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to

    execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7588)

    It was discovered that a double free existed in CImg when loading crafted

    bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary

    code. (CVE-2018-7589)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Update to 2.3.6 release. Fixes CVE-2018-7587, CVE-2018-7588, CVE-2018-7589, CVE-2018-7637, CVE-2018-7638, CVE-2018-7639, CVE-2018-7640, CVE-2018-7641

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 2.3.6 release Fixes CVE-2018-7587, CVE-2018-7588, CVE-2018-7589, CVE-2018-7637, CVE-2018-7638, CVE-2018-7639, CVE-2018-7640, CVE-2018-7641

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183600	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : CImg vulnerabilities (USN-4039-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
120403	Fedora 29 : 1:CImg (2018-4c9e9b82d1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120252	Fedora 28 : 1:CImg (2018-1735cbc422)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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