RHEL 4 : ImageMagick (RHSA-2005:320)

high Nessus Plugin ID 17623

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2005:320 advisory.

ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System which can read and write multiple image formats.

A format string bug was found in the way ImageMagick handles filenames. An attacker could execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine if they were able to trick the victim into opening a file with a specially crafted name.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-0397 to this issue.

Additionally, a bug was fixed which caused ImageMagick(TM) to occasionally segfault when writing TIFF images to standard output.

Users of ImageMagick should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch, and are not vulnerable to these issues.

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 ImageMagick package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:320.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 17623

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-320.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/25/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-0397

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/23/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0397

BID: 12717, 12873

RHSA: 2005:320

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