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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : ImageMagick vulnerabilities (USN-4670-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 144300

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4670-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain specially crafted image files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2019-19948, CVE-2019-19949)

 It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain specially crafted image files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-27560)

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4670-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 144300

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4670-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-19948

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-5v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6-arch-config, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6.q16hdri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-q16hdri-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-6-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6.q16, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perlmagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-q16-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6-headers

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-19948, CVE-2019-19949, CVE-2020-27560

USN: 4670-1