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Amazon Linux 2 : ImageMagick (ALAS-2023-2014)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 174585

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of ImageMagick installed on the remote host is prior to 6.9.10.97-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2014 advisory.

 A vulnerability was discovered in ImageMagick where a specially created SVG file loads itself and causes a segmentation fault. This flaw allows a remote attacker to pass a specially crafted SVG file that leads to a segmentation fault, generating many trash files in /tmp, resulting in a denial of service. When ImageMagick crashes, it generates a lot of trash files. These trash files can be large if the SVG file contains many render actions. In a denial of service attack, if a remote attacker uploads an SVG file of size t, ImageMagick generates files of size 103*t. If an attacker uploads a 100M SVG, the server will generate about 10G. (CVE-2023-1289)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update ImageMagick' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2014.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-1289.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 174585

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2014.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/20/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1289

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-perl, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1289