Fedora 9 : libpng10-1.0.37-1.fc9 (2008-3683)

high Nessus Plugin ID 32458

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes the way that libpng10 handles unknown zero-length chunks, which in previous versions could result in writing to attacker controlled addresses, depending on how the libpng api is used. To be affected, an application would have to call png_set_keep_unknown_chunks(), which tells libpng not to ignore unknown chunks, but to do something with them. The PNG spec allows for 'unknown' chunks, which are ignored by default, but an application could in theory embed some sort of extra data in a png image, then later get it back out via this mechanism. No packages in Fedora are believed to be affected by this issue, but it's possible that third-party applications could be.

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=441839

http://www.nessus.org/u?fc9415b5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32458

File Name: fedora_2008-3683.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

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:libpng10, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1382

BID: 28770

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-3683