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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : openexr vulnerabilities (USN-831-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40982

Synopsis

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

Description

Drew Yao discovered several flaws in the way OpenEXR handled certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-1720, CVE-2009-1721)

It was discovered that OpenEXR did not properly handle certain malformed EXR image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted EXR image file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2009-1722).

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/831-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40982

File Name: ubuntu_USN-831-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2009

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: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:openexr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenexr6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenexr2ldbl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libopenexr-dev, 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: 9/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1720, CVE-2009-1721, CVE-2009-1722

BID: 35838

CWE: 119, 16, 189

USN: 831-1