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Debian DLA-1229-1 : imagemagick security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105557

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there were two vulnerabilities in the imagemagick image manipulation program :

CVE-2017-1000445: A NULL pointer dereference in the MagickCore component which could lead to denial of service.

CVE-2017-1000476: A potential denial of service attack via CPU exhaustion.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in imagemagick version 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u20.

We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00002.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/imagemagick

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105557

File Name: debian_DLA-1229.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/4/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagick%2b%2b5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagickwand5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagickwand-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagickcore5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:perlmagick, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagickcore-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmagickcore5-extra, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick-dbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000445, CVE-2017-1000476