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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10 : pixman vulnerability (USN-2047-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71211

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Bryan Quigley discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.

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

Solution

Update the affected libpixman-1-0 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2047-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71211

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2047-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpixman-1-0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/3/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2013

Reference Information

BID: 64122

USN: 2047-1