OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-6b4a9c1dd1 advisory.

    Update to 7.9.1

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-0533c67535 advisory.

    Update to 7.9.1

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.
    (CVE-2023-43907)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0388-1 advisory.

  - OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.
    (CVE-2023-43907)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ae05c3bca8 advisory.

    Update to 0.7.8     Security fix for CVE-2023-43907

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-125037736c advisory.

    Update to 0.7.8     Security fix for CVE-2023-43907

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-f3389245ce advisory.

    Update to 0.7.8     Security fix for CVE-2023-43907

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the fe7ac70a-792b-11ee-bf9a-a04a5edf46d9 advisory.

  - OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.
    (CVE-2023-43907)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
240348	Fedora 42 : optipng (2025-6b4a9c1dd1)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
240344	Fedora 41 : optipng (2025-0533c67535)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
226286	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-43907	Nessus	Misc.	high
186523	openSUSE 15 Security Update : optipng (openSUSE-SU-2023:0388-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
185511	Fedora 38 : optipng (2023-ae05c3bca8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
185510	Fedora 39 : optipng (2023-125037736c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
185508	Fedora 37 : optipng (2023-f3389245ce)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
184385	FreeBSD : PptiPNG -- Global-buffer-overflow (fe7ac70a-792b-11ee-bf9a-a04a5edf46d9)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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