Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-1435-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58964

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Joonas Kuorilehto and Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain ResolutionUnit tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-0247, CVE-2012-1185)

Joonas Kuorilehto and Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain IFD structures. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2012-0248, CVE-2012-1186)

Aleksis Kauppinen, Joonas Kuorilehto and Tuomas Parttimaa discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JPEG EXIF tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0259)

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JPEG EXIF tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-1610)

Aleksis Kauppinen, Joonas Kuorilehto and Tuomas Parttimaa discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain TIFF EXIF tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2012-1798).

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1435-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58964

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1435-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0247, CVE-2012-0248, CVE-2012-0259, CVE-2012-1185, CVE-2012-1186, CVE-2012-1610, CVE-2012-1798

BID: 51957, 52898

USN: 1435-1