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Amazon Linux AMI : GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2016-752)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94018

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Synopsis

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

Description

A possible heap overflow was discovered in the EscapeParenthesis() function (CVE-2016-7447).

Various issues were found in the processing of SVG files in GraphicsMagick (CVE-2016-7446).

The TIFF reader had a bug pertaining to use of TIFFGetField() when a 'count' value is returned. The bug caused a heap read overflow (due to using strlcpy() to copy a possibly unterminated string) which could allow an untrusted file to crash the software (CVE-2016-7449).

The Utah RLE reader did not validate that header information was reasonable given the file size and so it could cause huge memory allocations and/or consume huge amounts of CPU, causing a denial of service (CVE-2016-7448)

Solution

Run 'yum update GraphicsMagick' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2016-752.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94018

File Name: ala_ALAS-2016-752.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2016

Updated: 1/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7447

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick-perl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick-c%2b%2b-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:graphicsmagick-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7446, CVE-2016-7447, CVE-2016-7448, CVE-2016-7449

ALAS: 2016-752