Detections
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Fedora 24 : 2:libpng (2016-12c22499dd)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96289

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

libpng 1.6.27 release, fixing a potential security issue. For details, see https://sourceforge.net/p/png-mng/mailman/message/35575076/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected 2:libpng package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-12c22499dd

https://sourceforge.net/p/png-mng/mailman/message/35575076/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96289

File Name: fedora_2016-12c22499dd.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/5/2017

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:2:libpng

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/4/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2017

Reference Information