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Amazon Linux AMI : ImageMagick (ALAS-2014-336)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78279

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Synopsis

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

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ImageMagick handled PSD images that use RLE encoding. An attacker could create a malicious PSD image file that, when opened in ImageMagick, would cause ImageMagick to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running ImageMagick.

A buffer overflow flaw affecting ImageMagick when creating PSD images was reported. The vulnerability is similar to CVE-2014-1947 , except that CVE-2014-2030 's format string is 'L%06ld' instead of CVE-2014-1947 's 'L%02ld' due to commit r1448.

Solution

Run 'yum update ImageMagick' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-336.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78279

File Name: ala_ALAS-2014-336.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2014

Updated: 2/12/2020

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1947, CVE-2014-1958, CVE-2014-2030

ALAS: 2014-336