Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM : pano13 vulnerabilities (USN-6163-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 177327

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6163-1 advisory.

It was discovered that pano13 did not properly validate the prefix provided for PTcrop's output. An attacker could use this issue to cause pano13 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20307)

It was discovered that pano13 did not properly handle certain crafted TIFF images. An attacker could use this issue to cause pano13 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-33293)

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 libpano13-3, libpano13-bin and / or libpano13-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6163-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 177327

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6163-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/14/2023

Updated: 8/28/2024

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-2021-20307

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpano13-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpano13-bin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpano13-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpano13-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm

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: 6/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20307, CVE-2021-33293

USN: 6163-1