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Fedora 26 : potrace (2017-44bfb0f3e5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102452

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release consists of bugfixes and minor portability improvements.
Some potential buffer overflows and arithmetic overflows were fixed, including CVE-2017-12067. A bug triggered by very large bitmaps has been fixed.

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 potrace package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-44bfb0f3e5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102452

File Name: fedora_2017-44bfb0f3e5.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:potrace, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-8685, CVE-2017-12067