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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : GD Graphics Library vulnerabilities (USN-4316-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183650

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4316-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled cloning an image. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GD Graphics Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2018-14553)

 It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled loading images from X bitmap format files.
 An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GD Graphics Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to disclose contents of the stack that has been left there by previous code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-11038)

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 libgd-dev, libgd-tools and / or libgd3 packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4316-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183650

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4316-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2023

Updated: 8/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11038

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd-tools

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: 4/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14553, CVE-2019-11038

USN: 4316-1