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Fedora 38 : freeimage / mingw-freeimage (2024-e6a35cd250)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192227

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-e6a35cd250 advisory.

 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value discovered in BitmapAccess.cpp::FreeImage_AllocateBitmap in FreeImage 3.18.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-47995)

 - An issue discovered in BitmapAccess.cpp::FreeImage_AllocateBitmap in FreeImage 3.18.0 leads to an infinite loop and allows attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-47997)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected freeimage and / or mingw-freeimage packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-e6a35cd250

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192227

File Name: fedora_2024-e6a35cd250.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2024

Updated: 3/18/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-47997

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:freeimage, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-freeimage

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-47995, CVE-2023-47997