Fedora 20 : mingw-freetype-2.5.4-1.fc20 (2014-17580)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80320

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 2.5.4\r\n* Updated subpixel rendering patch to 2.5.3

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 mingw-freetype package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118276

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172635

http://www.nessus.org/u?6e8beb34

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80320

File Name: fedora_2014-17580.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-freetype, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2240

BID: 66074

FEDORA: 2014-17580