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Fedora 17 : libpng-1.5.8-2.fc17 (2012-1892)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58150

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix nasty buffer overrun bug, CVE-2011-3026

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=790737

http://www.nessus.org/u?010450a1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58150

File Name: fedora_2012-1892.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2012

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3026

FEDORA: 2012-1892