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Fedora Core 3 : xloadimage-4.1-35.FC3 (2005-981)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19973

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Oct 10 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> 4.1-35

 - fix for CVE-2005-3178 xloadimage NIFF buffer overflow (#170150)

 - Mon Apr 11 2005 Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com>

 - fix a memory leak

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 xloadimage and / or xloadimage-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?dd6bbe32

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19973

File Name: fedora_2005-981.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/11/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xloadimage, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xloadimage-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-981