Fedora 16 : jasper-1.900.1-18.fc16 (2011-16966)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57417

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2011-4516 CVE-2011-4517 jasper: heap buffer overflow flaws lead to arbitrary code execution (CERT VU#887409)

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Solution

Update the affected jasper package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747726

http://www.nessus.org/u?cee69b94

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57417

File Name: fedora_2011-16966.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:ND

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:jasper, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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: 12/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4516, CVE-2011-4517

BID: 50992

CERT: 887409

FEDORA: 2011-16966