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RHEL 2.1 : libpng (RHSA-2002:152)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12313

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated libpng packages are available that fix a buffer overflow vulnerability.

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format.

Versions of libpng prior to 1.0.14 contain a buffer overflow in the progressive reader when the PNG datastream contains more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk. Such deliberately malformed datastreams would crash applications linked to libpng such as Mozilla that use the progressive reading feature.

Packages within Red Hat Linux Advanced Server , such as Mozilla, make use of the shared libpng library, therefore all users are advised to upgrade to the errata packages which contain libpng 1.0.14. Libpng 1.0.14 is not vulnerable to this issue and contains fixes for other bugs including a number of memory leaks.

Solution

Update the affected libpng and / or libpng-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2002-0660

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2002-0728

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002:152

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12313

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2002-152.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libpng-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libpng

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-0660, CVE-2002-0728

RHSA: 2002:152