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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : DCMTK vulnerabilities (USN-5882-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 171810

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5882-1 advisory.

 Gjoko Krstic discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted

 input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

 denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8979)

 Omar Ganiev discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled buffers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted

 input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

 denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and

 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-1010228)

 Jinsheng Ba discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain requests. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

 cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,

 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41687, CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689, and CVE-2021-41690)

 Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected

 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2119 and CVE-2022-2120)

 Sharon Brizinov and Noam Moshe discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled pointers. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-2121)

 It was discovered that DCMTK incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a certain specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to

 cause a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,

 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-43272)

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-5882-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 171810

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5882-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

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-2022-2120

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:libdcmtk14, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdcmtk-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdcmtk5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdcmtk12, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dcmtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libdcmtk16, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:esm

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8979, CVE-2019-1010228, CVE-2021-41687, CVE-2021-41688, CVE-2021-41689, CVE-2021-41690, CVE-2022-2119, CVE-2022-2120, CVE-2022-2121, CVE-2022-43272

USN: 5882-1