Fedora 9 : libpng-1.2.29-1.fc9 (2008-4910)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33081

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to new upstream version 1.2.29. Among other bug fixes, this introduces a minor security fix in the handling of unknown chunks - CVE-2008-1382: http://libpng.sourceforge.net/Advisory-1.2.26.txt http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-003.html

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 libpng package.

See Also

https://libpng.sourceforge.io/Advisory-1.2.26.txt

http://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-003.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441839

http://www.nessus.org/u?47eb9967

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33081

File Name: fedora_2008-4910.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/4/2008

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:libpng, 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: 6/3/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1382

BID: 28770

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2008-4910