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Fedora 11 : libpng-1.2.37-1.fc11 (2009-6506)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39454

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to libpng 1.2.37, to fix CVE-2009-2042. This is a pretty low-risk issue, but it's been classified as a security 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 libpng package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504782

http://www.nessus.org/u?069b825e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39454

File Name: fedora_2009-6506.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2009

Reference Information

BID: 35233

FEDORA: 2009-6506