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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : ImageMagick vulnerability (USN-6621-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189915

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6621-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values when processing BMP files. An attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6621-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189915

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6621-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/1/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5341

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-perl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-5v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6-arch-config, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6.q16hdri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-q16hdri-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-6-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-8, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6.q16, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore5-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perlmagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-q16-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5341

IAVB: 2023-B-0077-S

USN: 6621-1