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SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Gimp (SAT Patch Number 5193)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57104

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Specially crafted gif files could have caused an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow in the gif decoder (CVE-2011-2896). This has been fixed.

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 5193.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711491

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2896.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57104

File Name: suse_11_gimp-110923.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/13/2011

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gimp-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gimp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gimp-plugins-python

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2896