Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 : LibRaw vulnerabilities (USN-7485-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 235341

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7485-1 advisory.

It was discovered that LibRaw could be made to read out of bounds. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-43961, CVE-2025-43962, CVE-2025-43963, CVE-2025-43964)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-7485-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 235341

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7485-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2025

Updated: 5/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43964

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw15, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw16, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw19, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw23t64, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libraw20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43961, CVE-2025-43962, CVE-2025-43963, CVE-2025-43964

IAVA: 2025-A-0306

USN: 7485-1