Fedora 23 : freeimage-3.17.0-1.fc23 (2015-16106)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86173

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to version 3.17.0, see http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/news.html for details. This update includes a patch for CVE-2015-0852.

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 freeimage package.

See Also

http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/news.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257860

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501993

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f1388de

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86173

File Name: fedora_2015-16106.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/28/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeimage, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0852

FEDORA: 2015-16106