Fedora Core 2 : gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-12.fc2 (2005-265)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18325

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

David Costanzo found a bug in the way gdk-pixbuf processes BMP images.
It is possible that a specially crafted BMP image could cause a denial of service attack in applications linked against gdk-pixbuf. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0891 to this issue.

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 gdk-pixbuf package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7964b28

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18325

File Name: fedora_2005-265.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2005

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:gdk-pixbuf, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0891

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2005-265