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Fedora 9 : libpng10-1.0.41-1.fc9 (2008-9379)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34758

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes an upstream fix for a memory leak within the 'png_handle_tEXt()' function in pngrutil.c, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) via a specially crafted PNG image.

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 libpng10 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468990

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b7b0d32

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34758

File Name: fedora_2008-9379.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:9

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/13/2008

Reference Information

BID: 31920

FEDORA: 2008-9379