Debian DSA-2750-1 : imagemagick - buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69780

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Anton Kortunov reported a heap corruption in ImageMagick, a program collection and library for converting and manipulating image files.
Crafted GIF files could cause ImageMagick to crash, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the imagemagick packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69780

File Name: debian_DSA-2750.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/5/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4298

BID: 62080

DSA: 2750

Detections

Analytics