SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libpng16 (SUSE-SU-2016:0027-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 87861
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update fixes the following security issue :
- CVE-2015-8126 Multiple buffer overflows in the png_set_PLTE and png_get_PLTE functions allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact [bsc#954980]
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-16=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-16=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-16=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-16=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-16=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-16=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.