Fedora 14 : libpng10-1.0.55-1.fc14 (2011-8867)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55655

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a 1-byte uninitialized memory reference in png_format_buffer(). It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message. This is CVE-2011-2501.

Also fixed in this release are some other minor security problems and there's additionally a bugfix backported from 1.5.3: when expanding a paletted image, always expand to RGBA if transparency is present.

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 package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55655

File Name: fedora_2011-8867.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/25/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0421, CVE-2011-2501, CVE-2011-2690, CVE-2011-2691, CVE-2011-2692

BID: 48474, 48618, 48660

FEDORA: 2011-8867

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