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Fedora 29 : cairo (2018-3a195026f5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120358

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update lowers amount of color artefacts around glyphs when subpixel rendering is enabled for text by using freetype's default LCD filter.

It also fixes a crash caused by using of wrong function for freeing of memory (CVE-2018-19876).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cairo package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-3a195026f5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120358

File Name: fedora_2018-3a195026f5.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cairo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19876