Fedora 12 : DevIL-1.7.8-4.fc12 (2009-13219)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47169

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Fri Dec 4 2009 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> 1.7.8-4

- Fix DICOM Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2009-3994 (#542700)

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 DevIL package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542700

http://www.nessus.org/u?d8179e40

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47169

File Name: fedora_2009-13219.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

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: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:devil, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3994

BID: 37207

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-13219