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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Evince vulnerability (USN-3959-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183631

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3959-1 advisory.

 - The tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() functions in the TIFF document backend in GNOME Evince through 3.32.0 did not handle errors from TIFFReadRGBAImageOriented(), leading to uninitialized memory use when processing certain TIFF image files. (CVE-2019-11459)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3959-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183631

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3959-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/21/2023

Updated: 10/21/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11459

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:browser-plugin-evince, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evince, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evince-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evince-gtk, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-evince-3.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libevdocument3-4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libevince-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libevview3-3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11459

USN: 3959-1