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GLSA-202407-04 : Pixman: Heap Buffer Overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 201181

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202407-04 (Pixman: Heap Buffer Overflow)

 A vulnerability has been discovered in Pixman. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All Pixman users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=x11-libs/pixman-0.42.2

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202407-04

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879207

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 201181

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202407-04.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 7/1/2024

Updated: 7/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-44638

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pixman

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-44638