Fedora Core 2 : gtk2-2.4.7-2.4 (2004-289)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14744

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

During testing of a previously fixed flaw in Qt (CVE-2004-0691), a flaw was discovered in the BMP image processor of gtk2. An attacker could create a carefully crafted BMP file which would cause an application to enter an infinite loop and not respond to user input when the file was opened by a victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0753 to this issue.

During a security audit Chris Evans discovered a stack and a heap overflow in the XPM image decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted XPM file which could cause an application linked with gtk2 to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when the file was opened by a victim. (CVE-2004-0782, CVE-2004-0783)

Chris Evans also discovered an integer overflow in the ICO image decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted ICO file which could cause an application linked with gtk2 to crash when the file was opened by a victim. (CVE-2004-0788)

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 gtk2, gtk2-debuginfo and / or gtk2-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14744

File Name: fedora_2004-289.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/15/2004

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gtk2-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gtk2, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gtk2-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:2

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0753

FEDORA: 2004-289

Detections

Analytics