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Ubuntu 4.10 : libgd vulnerabilities (USN-33-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 20649

Synopsis

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

Description

CAN-2004-0990 described several buffer overflows which had been discovered in libgd's PNG handling functions. Another update is required because the update from USN-21-1 was not sufficient to prevent every possible attack.

If an attacker tricks a user into loading a malicious PNG or XPM image, they could leverage this into executing arbitrary code in the context of the user opening image.

This vulnerability might lead to privilege escalation in customized systems that use server applications which link libgd. However, Warty does not ship such server applications (PHP in Warty uses libgd2 which was already fixed in USN-25-1).

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: Critical

ID: 20649

File Name: ubuntu_USN-33-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd-noxpm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd1-noxpm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd-xpm-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgd1-xpm

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0941, CVE-2004-0990

USN: 33-1