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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-55212

🗓️ 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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CVE-2025-55212: ImageMagick geometry string with colon in montage causes denial of service.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(260515);
  script_version("1.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/01/30");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-55212");

  script_name(english:"Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-55212");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be
patched.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to
    versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2, passing a geometry string containing only a colon (:) to montage
    -geometry leads GetGeometry() to set width/height to 0. Later, ThumbnailImage() divides by these zero
    dimensions, triggering a crash (SIGFPE/abort), resulting in a denial of service. This issue has been
    patched in versions 6.9.13-28 and 7.1.2-2. (CVE-2025-55212)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-55212");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-55212");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"There is no known solution at this time.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"unix");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:U/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:U/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-55212");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vendor_unpatched", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/08/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/09/02");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ImageMagick");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ImageMagick-c++");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ImageMagick-c++-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ImageMagick-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ImageMagick-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ImageMagick-perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ImageMagick");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ImageMagick-c++");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ImageMagick-c++-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ImageMagick-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ImageMagick-doc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ImageMagick-perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Misc.");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025-2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info2.nasl", "set_linux_os_id.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/local_checks_enabled", "global_settings/vendor_unpatched", "Host/OS/identifier");
  script_require_ports("Host/OS/CentOS Linux-7", "Host/OS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-6", "Host/OS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7", "Host/OS/Ubuntu Linux-25.04");

  exit(0);
}

if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

var distro_constraints_array = {
  "Ubuntu Linux-25.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "25.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "imagemagick"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "ImageMagick"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-c++"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-c++-devel"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-devel"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-doc"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-perl"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-6": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "6",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "ImageMagick"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-c++"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-c++-devel"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-devel"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-doc"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-perl"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux-7": {
    "package_manager": "rpm-list",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "ImageMagick"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-c++"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-c++-devel"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-devel"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-doc"},
          {"reference": "ImageMagick-perl"}
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}

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