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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : netpbm-free vulnerabilities (USN-218-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20636

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Two buffer overflows were discovered in the 'pnmtopng' tool, which were triggered by processing an image with exactly 256 colors when using the -alpha option (CVE-2005-3662) or by processing a text file with very long lines when using the -text option (CVE-2005-3632).

A remote attacker could exploit these to execute arbitrary code by tricking an user or an automated system into processing a specially crafted PNM file with pnmtopng.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20636

File Name: ubuntu_USN-218-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm10-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnetpbm9-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:netpbm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-3632, CVE-2005-3662

USN: 218-1