Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-1949-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 69843

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled decoding GIF image comments. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Solution

Update the affected libmagick++5 and / or libmagickcore5 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 69843

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1949-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 9/11/2013

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: 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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4298

BID: 62080

USN: 1949-1

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