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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-681-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 36745
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain malformed XCF images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image with an application that uses ImageMagick, 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 packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 36745
File Name: ubuntu_USN-681-1.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 4/23/2009
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: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b9-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perlmagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b9c2a, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick9-dev
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1096
BID: 28821