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Fedora 23 : mingw-libpng-1.6.21-1.fc23 (2016-9a1c707b10)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89587

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 1.6.21 which fixes various CVE's

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 mingw-libpng package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281760

http://www.nessus.org/u?19ce94a7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89587

File Name: fedora_2016-9a1c707b10.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-libpng, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8126