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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Little CMS vulnerability (USN-2961-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90916

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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-2961-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that a double free() could occur when the intent handling code in the Little CMS library detected an error. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file that caused an application using the Little CMS library to crash 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 liblcms2-2, liblcms2-dev and / or liblcms2-utils packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2961-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90916

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2961-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/5/2016

Updated: 8/27/2024

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-7455

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:liblcms2-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblcms2-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:liblcms2-utils

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7455

USN: 2961-1