openSUSE 10 Security Update : libpng (libpng-6324)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 42016

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update of libpng improves the parsing of 1-bit interlaced images.
This bug could be abused to use 'out-of-bounds pixels' to read memory.
(CVE-2009-2042)

Solution

Update the affected libpng packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 42016

File Name: suse_libpng-6324.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/6/2009

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: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng-devel-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpng

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2042

CWE: 200

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