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Fedora 8 : libpng10-1.0.41-1.fc8 (2008-9393)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34759

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes an upstream fix for a memory leak within the 'png_handle_tEXt()' function in pngrutil.c, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) via a specially crafted PNG image.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libpng10 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468990

http://www.nessus.org/u?266db3a7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34759

File Name: fedora_2008-9393.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2008

Reference Information

BID: 31920

FEDORA: 2008-9393