Fedora 10 : giflib-4.1.6-2.fc10 (2009-4848)

high Nessus Plugin ID 39453

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 4.1.6 containing several upstream fixes etc. - Solved multilib problems with documentation (#465208, #474538) - Removed static library from giflib-devel package (#225796 #c1)

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 giflib package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494823

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494826

http://www.nessus.org/u?35739907

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 39453

File Name: fedora_2009-4848.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:giflib, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2974, CVE-2005-3350

BID: 15299, 15304

FEDORA: 2009-4848