Ubuntu 4.10 : libexif vulnerabilities (USN-91-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20717

Synopsis

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

Description

Sylvain Defresne discovered that the EXIF library did not properly validate the structure of the EXIF tags. By tricking a user to load an image with a malicious EXIF tag, an attacker could exploit this to crash the process using the library, or even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.

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 libexif-dev and / or libexif10 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20717

File Name: ubuntu_USN-91-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexif-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libexif10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2005

Reference Information

USN: 91-1

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