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openSUSE 10 Security Update : imlib2-loaders (imlib2-loaders-2265)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27271

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Various security problems have been fixed in the imlib2 image loaders :

CVE-2006-4809: A stack-based buffer overflow in loader_pnm.c could be used by attackers to execute code by supplying a handcrafted PNM image.

CVE-2006-4808: A heap buffer overflow in loader_tga.c could potentially be used by attackers to execute code by supplying a handcrafted TGA image.

CVE-2006-4807: A out of bounds memory read in loader_tga.c could be used to crash the imlib2 using application with a handcrafted TGA image.

CVE-2006-4806: Various integer overflows in width*height calculations could lead to heap overflows which could potentially be used to execute code. Affected here are the ARGB, PNG, LBM, JPEG and TIFF loaders.

Additionaly loading of TIFF images on 64bit systems is now possible.

This update obsoletes the previous one, which had problems with JPEG loading.

Solution

Update the affected imlib2-loaders package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27271

File Name: suse_imlib2-loaders-2265.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:imlib2-loaders

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4806, CVE-2006-4807, CVE-2006-4808, CVE-2006-4809