Ubuntu 4.10 : imagemagick vulnerability (USN-90-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20716

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered a format string vulnerability in ImageMagick's file name handling. Specially crafted file names could cause a program using ImageMagick to crash, or possibly even cause execution of arbitrary code.

Since ImageMagick can be used in custom printing systems, this also might lead to privilege escalation (execute code with the printer spooler's privileges). However, Ubuntu's standard printing system does not use ImageMagick, thus there is no risk of privilege escalation in a standard installation.

ImageMagick is also commonly used by web frontends; if these accept image uploads with arbitrary file names, this could also lead to remote privilege escalation.

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 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20716

File Name: ubuntu_USN-90-1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b6-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick6-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perlmagick, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0397

USN: 90-1

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