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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : pixman vulnerability (USN-2918-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89659

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2918-1 advisory.

 Vincent LE GARREC discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause pixman to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libpixman-1-0, libpixman-1-0-udeb and / or libpixman-1-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2918-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89659

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2918-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9766

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpixman-1-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpixman-1-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpixman-1-0-udeb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9766

USN: 2918-1