Debian DLA-683-1 : graphicsmagick security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94297

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the graphicsmagick package that may lead to denial of service through failed assertions, CPU or memory usage. Some vulnerabilities may also lead to code execution but no exploit is currently known.

CVE-2016-7448

Utah RLE: Reject truncated/absurd files which caused huge memory allocations and/or consumed huge CPU

CVE-2016-7996

missing check that the provided colormap is not larger than 256 entries resulting in potential heap overflow

CVE-2016-7997

denial of service via a crash due to an assertion

CVE-2016-8682

stack-based buffer overflow in ReadSCTImage (sct.c)

CVE-2016-8683

memory allocation failure in ReadPCXImage (pcx.c)

CVE-2016-8684

memory allocation failure in MagickMalloc (memory.c)

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.16-1.1+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphicsmagick packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94297

File Name: debian_DLA-683.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/27/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick%2b%2b1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphics-magick-perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick%2b%2b3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7448, CVE-2016-7996, CVE-2016-7997, CVE-2016-8682, CVE-2016-8683, CVE-2016-8684

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