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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : VIPS vulnerabilities (USN-6437-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183342

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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 / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6437-1 advisory.

 Ziqiang Gu discovered that VIPS could be made to dereference a NULL

 pointer. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing

 a specially crafted input image file, an 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-2018-7998)

 It was discovered that VIPS did not properly handle uninitialized memory locations when processing corrupted input image data. An attacker could

 possibly use this issue to generate output images that expose sensitive

 information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-6976)

 It was discovered that VIPS did not properly manage memory due to an

 uninitialized variable. If a user or automated system were tricked into

 processing a specially crafted output file, an attacker could possibly

 use this issue to expose sensitive information.

 This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

 (CVE-2020-20739)

 It was discovered that VIPS could be made to divide by zero in multiple

 funcions. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a

 specially crafted image file, an 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-2021-27847)

 It was discovered that VIPS did not properly handle certain input files

 that contained malformed UTF-8 characters. If a user or automated system

 were tricked into processing a specially crafted SVG image file, an

 attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

 This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-40032)

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-6437-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183342

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6437-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/18/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7998

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/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:libvips-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-vips-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvips-tools, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-vipscc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvips42, 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: 10/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7998, CVE-2019-6976, CVE-2020-20739, CVE-2021-27847, CVE-2023-40032

USN: 6437-1