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Fedora 7 : tkimg-1.3-0.8.20080505svn.fc7 (2008-3545)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32205

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Bug #431518 - CVE-2008-0553 tk: GIF handling buffer overflow

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 tkimg package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431518

http://www.nessus.org/u?9187534f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32205

File Name: fedora_2008-3545.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2008

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tkimg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0553

BID: 27655

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-3545