RHEL 7 : gd (RHSA-2020:5443)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144275

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gd.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5443 advisory.

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, XPM, BMP images, among other formats.

Security Fix(es):

* gd: Integer overflow in _gd2GetHeader() resulting in heap overflow (CVE-2016-5766)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL gd package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:5443.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b234828b

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5443

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351068

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144275

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-5443.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/15/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5766

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gd-progs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gd-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/23/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5766

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2020:5443