Fedora 20 : perl-Gtk2-1.2495-1.fc20 (2015-1762)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81363

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.2495 to resolve an incorrect memory management issue in Gtk2::Gdk::Display::list_devices, which can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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 perl-Gtk2 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188219

http://www.nessus.org/u?5a99f65f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81363

File Name: fedora_2015-1762.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-gtk2, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-1762