Fedora 21 : libwmf-0.2.8.4-45.fc21 (2015-10601)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85084

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2015-0848 Heap overflow CVE-2015-4588 RLE decoding doesn't check that the 'count' fits into the image CVE-2015-4695 meta_pen_create heap buffer overflow CVE-2015-4696 wmf2gd/wmf2eps use after free

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 libwmf package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235671

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed7abeee

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85084

File Name: fedora_2015-10601.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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:libwmf, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4695, CVE-2015-4696

FEDORA: 2015-10601