Detections
Analytics
Fedora 7 : libpng10-1.0.29-1.fc7 (2007-2521)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 27775
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
Certain chunk handlers in libpng10 before 1.0.29 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL), (3) tEXt (png_push_read_tEXt), (4) iTXt (png_handle_iTXt), and (5) ztXT (png_handle_ztXt) chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations.http://secunia.com/advisories/27093 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3390 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3.0.6.32.2007 1004082318.012a7628%40mail.comcast.net&forum_name=png-mng-implement
This update to 1.0.29 addresses these issues.
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 libpng10, libpng10-debuginfo and / or libpng10-devel packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?3f1f637b
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 27775
File Name: fedora_2007-2521.nasl
Version: 1.18
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 11/6/2007
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-5269
BID: 25956