Debian DSA-1168-1 : imagemagick - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 22710

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Imagemagick, a collection of image manipulation tools, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2006-2440 Eero Hakkinen discovered that the display tool allocates insufficient memory for globbing patterns, which might lead to a buffer overflow.

- CVE-2006-3743 Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team discovered that the Sun bitmap decoder performs insufficient input sanitising, which might lead to buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code.

- CVE-2006-3744 Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team discovered that the XCF image decoder performs insufficient input sanitising, which might lead to buffer overflows and the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the imagemagick packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 6:6.0.6.2-2.7.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22710

File Name: debian_DSA-1168.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/4/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2440, CVE-2006-3743, CVE-2006-3744

DSA: 1168

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