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Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : dvipng vulnerability (USN-936-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46253

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Dan Rosenberg discovered that dvipng incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi 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.

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Solution

Update the affected dvipng package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/936-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46253

File Name: ubuntu_USN-936-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/7/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dvipng, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0829

USN: 936-1