Fedora 13 : libpng10-1.0.53-1.fc13 (2010-2988)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47298

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is the latest upstream maintenance release. In addition to a number of minor bugfixes, it mitigates the resource-consumption effects of highly compressed ancillary chunks in hostile PNG files as described at http://libpng.sourceforge.net/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html This issue has been assigned CVE-2010-0205 by CERT.

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 libpng10 package.

See Also

https://libpng.sourceforge.io/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566234

http://www.nessus.org/u?25c259fc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47298

File Name: fedora_2010-2988.nasl

Version: 1.12

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: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng10, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/26/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0205

BID: 38478

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2010-2988