Fedora 15 : libpng-1.2.46-1.fc15 (2011-9343)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 55612

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to libpng 1.2.46, includes fixes for CVE-2011-2501, CVE-2011-2690, CVE-2011-2691, CVE-2011-2692

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=717084

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720607

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720608

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720612

http://www.nessus.org/u?7d48ea6b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 55612

File Name: fedora_2011-9343.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15, 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: 7/15/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0421, CVE-2011-2501, CVE-2011-2690, CVE-2011-2691, CVE-2011-2692

BID: 48474, 48618, 48660

FEDORA: 2011-9343