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CentOS 6 / 7 : gdk-pixbuf2 (CESA-2015:1694)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86499

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated gdk-pixbuf2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

gdk-pixbuf is an image loading library that can be extended by loadable modules for new image formats. It is used by toolkits such as GTK+ or clutter.

An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way gdk-pixbuf, an image loading library for GNOME, scaled certain bitmap format images. An attacker could use a specially crafted BMP image file that, when processed by an application compiled against the gdk-pixbuf library, would cause that application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the application. (CVE-2015-4491)

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Gustavo Grieco as the original reporter.

All gdk-pixbuf2 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected gdk-pixbuf2 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ce63a5bf

http://www.nessus.org/u?08f98cb9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86499

File Name: centos_RHSA-2015-1694.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-4491

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdk-pixbuf2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gdk-pixbuf2-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-4491

RHSA: 2015:1694