Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-1544-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61642

Synopsis

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

Description

Tom Lane discovered that ImageMagick would not always properly allocate memory. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted PNG 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.

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/1544-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61642

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1544-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

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/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/22/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3437

BID: 54714

USN: 1544-1