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Fedora Core 3 : gtk2-2.4.14-3.fc3 (2005-268)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 19640
Synopsis
The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.Description
David Costanzo found a bug in the way GTK+ processes BMP images. It is possible that a specially crafted BMP image could cause a denial of service attack in applications linked against GTK+. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0891 to this issue.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 and / or gtk2-devel packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 19640
File Name: fedora_2005-268.nasl
Version: 1.16
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: 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, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2005
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-0891