Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : imlib2 vulnerability (USN-683-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36374

Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that Imlib2 did not correctly handle certain malformed XPM images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image with an application that uses Imlib2, an attacker could cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

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 libimlib2 and / or libimlib2-dev packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/683-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36374

File Name: ubuntu_USN-683-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimlib2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimlib2-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5187

BID: 32371

CWE: 119

USN: 683-1