Fedora Core 3 : xloadimage-4.1-34.FC3 (2005-237)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19629

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2005-0638, a problem in the parsing of shell metacharacters in filenames. It also fixes bugs in handling of malformed TIFF and PBM/PNM/PPM issues.

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 xloadimage and / or xloadimage-debuginfo packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19629

File Name: fedora_2005-237.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/12/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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:xloadimage, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:xloadimage-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/18/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0638

FEDORA: 2005-237

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