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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-1932

medium Nessus Plugin ID 218058

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - The (1) load_djpeg function in JpegImagePlugin.py, (2) Ghostscript function in EpsImagePlugin.py, (3) load function in IptcImagePlugin.py, and (4) _copy function in Image.py in Python Image Library (PIL) 1.1.7 and earlier and Pillow before 2.3.1 do not properly create temporary files, which allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on the temporary file.
 (CVE-2014-1932)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-1932

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 218058

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2014_1932.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1932

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-qt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-imaging-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-imaging-tk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-sane, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-imaging-sane, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-imaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-imaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-imaging-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-pillow-qt, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-imaging-tk, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-sane, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-pillow-tk, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python-imaging-sane

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1932