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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Pillow vulnerabilities (USN-5777-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 168673

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5777-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled the deletion of temporary files when using a temporary directory that contains spaces. An attacker could possibly use this issue to delete arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24303)

 It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled the decompression of highly compressed GIF data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2022-45198)

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 python3-pil and / or python3-pil.imagetk packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5777-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 168673

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5777-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2022

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24303

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-pil.imagetk, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-pil, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24303, CVE-2022-45198

USN: 5777-1