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Fedora 28 : libwmf (2019-e9bc354ee8)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 122082

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2019-6978: double free in the gdImage*Ptr in gd_jpeg.c, and gd_wbmp.c

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 libwmf package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e9bc354ee8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 122082

File Name: fedora_2019-e9bc354ee8.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2019

Updated: 6/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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:fedoraproject:fedora:libwmf, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/28/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6978