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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : sdl-image1.2 vulnerabilities (USN-595-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 31703

Synopsis

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

Description

Michael Skladnikiewicz discovered that SDL_image did not correctly load GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted GIF, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2007-6697)

David Raulo discovered that SDL_image did not correctly load ILBM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted ILBM, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-0544).

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 libsdl-image1.2 and / or libsdl-image1.2-dev packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/595-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 31703

File Name: ubuntu_USN-595-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2008

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:libsdl-image1.2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsdl-image1.2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6697, CVE-2008-0544

CWE: 119

USN: 595-1