Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title pixman vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2918-1 First vendor Publication 2016-03-03
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-03-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

pixman could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed specially crafted data.

Software Description: - pixman: pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo

Details:

Vincent LE GARREC discovered an integer underflow in pixman. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause pixman to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libpixman-1-0 0.30.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libpixman-1-0 0.30.2-1ubuntu0.0.0.0.3

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2918-1
CVE-2014-9766

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pixman/0.30.2-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pixman/0.30.2-1ubuntu0.0.0.0.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2918-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3525.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2918-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-02-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-429.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2016-04-20 21:30:48
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2016-04-13 21:29:36
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2016-03-05 13:26:43
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2016-03-03 17:25:55
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2016-03-03 17:21:39
  • First insertion