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openSUSE Security Update : potrace (openSUSE-2017-319)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97651

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for potrace to version 1.14 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2016-8685, CVE-2016-8686: Bugs triggered by malformed BMP files have been fixed (boo#1005026).

Bugfixes :

 - Error reporting has been improved.

 - The image size is now truncated when the bitmap data ends prematurely.

 - It is now possible to use negative dy in bitmap data.

Solution

Update the affected potrace packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005026

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97651

File Name: openSUSE-2017-319.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2017

Updated: 12/30/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2016-8686

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:potrace-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpotrace0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:potrace, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:potrace-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpotrace0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:potrace-debugsource

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8685, CVE-2016-8686