Amazon Linux AMI : ImageMagick (ALAS-2023-1856)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 183851

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of ImageMagick installed on the remote host is prior to 6.9.10.97-1.30. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1856 advisory.

- A vulnerability was found in ImageMagick where heap use-after-free was found in coders/bmp.c.
(CVE-2023-5341) (CVE-2023-5341)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update ImageMagick' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1856.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-5341.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 183851

File Name: ala_ALAS-2023-1856.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2023

Updated: 12/22/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5341

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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:amazon:linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-c%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:imagemagick-perl, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5341