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Fedora 31 : pngcheck (2020-27b168926a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 143183

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix buffer overflow (RHBZ #1897485) A global buffer overflow was discovered in the check_chunk_name function via a crafted png file.

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 pngcheck package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143183

File Name: fedora_2020-27b168926a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/23/2020

Updated: 11/23/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pngcheck

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2020

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