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Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : exiv2 vulnerabilities (USN-655-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 37662

Synopsis

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

Description

Meder Kydyraliev discovered that exiv2 did not correctly handle certain EXIF headers. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could cause the application linked against libexiv2 to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly executing arbitrary code with user privileges.
(CVE-2007-6353)

Joakim Bildrulle discovered that exiv2 did not correctly handle Nikon lens EXIF information. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted image, a remote attacker could cause the application linked against libexiv2 to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2696).

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/655-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 37662

File Name: ubuntu_USN-655-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

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: 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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exiv2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexiv2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexiv2-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexiv2-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexiv2-0.12, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexiv2-0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/14/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6353, CVE-2008-2696

BID: 26918

CWE: 189

USN: 655-1