Fedora Core 1 : libpng-1.2.5-4 (2004-173)

high Nessus Plugin ID 13727

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

During an audit of Red Hat Linux updates, the Fedora Legacy team found a security issue in libpng that had not been fixed in Fedora Core. An attacker could carefully craft a PNG file in such a way that it would cause an application linked to libpng to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened by a victim.

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, libpng-debuginfo and / or libpng-devel packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ca69e2de

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 13727

File Name: fedora_2004-173.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng-devel, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:1

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2004

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2004-173