CentOS 4 / 5 : netpbm (CESA-2011:1811)

high Nessus Plugin ID 57140

Synopsis

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

Description

Updated netpbm packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

The netpbm packages contain a library of functions which support programs for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (Portable Bit Map), .pgm (Portable Gray Map), .pnm (Portable Any Map), .ppm (Portable Pixel Map), and others.

Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the embedded JasPer library, which is used to provide support for Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard in the jpeg2ktopam and pamtojpeg2k tools.
An attacker could create a malicious JPEG 2000 compressed image file that could cause jpeg2ktopam to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running jpeg2ktopam.
These flaws do not affect pamtojpeg2k. (CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517)

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the xpmtoppm tool processed X PixMap (XPM) image files. An attacker could create a malicious XPM file that would cause xpmtoppm to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running xpmtoppm. (CVE-2009-4274)

Red Hat would like to thank Jonathan Foote of the CERT Coordination Center for reporting the CVE-2011-4516 and CVE-2011-4517 issues.

All users of netpbm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected netpbm packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5f19815f

http://www.nessus.org/u?5dfe54de

http://www.nessus.org/u?75088498

http://www.nessus.org/u?81a9fe4f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 57140

File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-1811.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:netpbm-progs, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4274, CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517

BID: 38164, 50992

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2011:1811