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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Pillow vulnerabilities (USN-3230-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97723

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3230-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain compressed text chunks in PNG images. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9601)

 Cris Neckar discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-9189)

 Cris Neckar discovered that Pillow incorrectly handled certain malformed images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pillow to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9190)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3230-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97723

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3230-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2017

Updated: 9/3/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-9190

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 6.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-imaging, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-pil.imagetk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-sane, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-imaging, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pil.imagetk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-sane, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-imaging-sane, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-pil, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-imaging-sane, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-imaging-tk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-imaging-tk, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-imaging-compat

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9601, CVE-2016-9189, CVE-2016-9190

USN: 3230-1