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openSUSE Security Update : libpng12 (libpng12-5846)

high Nessus Plugin ID 75912

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow in libpng was fixed that could potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause an application to crash (CVE-2011-3026).

libpng 1.2 was updated to 1.2.47 to fix this issue.

Solution

Update the affected libpng12 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747311

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 75912

File Name: suse_11_4_libpng12-120220.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

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:novell:opensuse:libpng12-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-compat-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-compat-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-devel-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3026