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openSUSE Security Update : libpng-devel (libpng-devel-455)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40037

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of libpng fixes the function png_check_keyword() that allowed setting arbitrary bytes in the process memory to 0.
(CVE-2008-5907)

Solution

Update the affected libpng-devel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467308

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40037

File Name: suse_11_0_libpng-devel-090121.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

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: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng-devel-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng12-0-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5907