SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ImageMagick (SUSE-SU-2018:3465-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 118458

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issues :

CVE-2017-14997: GraphicsMagick allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive memory allocation) because of an integer underflow in ReadPICTImage in coders/pict.c. [bsc#1112399]

CVE-2018-16644: An regression in the security fix for the pict coder was fixed (bsc#1107609)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-2480=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-2480=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2480=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-2480=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107609

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112399

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14997/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16644/

http://www.nessus.org/u?1049aa74

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 118458

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3465-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2018

Updated: 2/2/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14997

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:imagemagick-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6_q16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6_q16-3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickcore-6_q16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickcore-6_q16-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickcore-6_q16-1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickwand-6_q16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libmagickwand-6_q16-1-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14997, CVE-2018-16644