The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0467 advisory.

    FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and     manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs     efficiently.

    Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled TrueType Font (TTF),     Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF), Windows .fnt and .fon, and     PostScript Type 1 fonts. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an     application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to     crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the     user running the application. (CVE-2012-1134, CVE-2012-1136, CVE-2012-1142,     CVE-2012-1144)

    Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled fonts in various     formats. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application     linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash.
    (CVE-2012-1126, CVE-2012-1127, CVE-2012-1130, CVE-2012-1131, CVE-2012-1132,     CVE-2012-1137, CVE-2012-1139, CVE-2012-1140, CVE-2012-1141, CVE-2012-1143)

    Red Hat would like to thank Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team for     reporting these issues.

    Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a     backported patch to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted     (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 5 / 6 : freetype (RHSA-2012:0467)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58674

Version 1.26

Version 1.25

Version 1.26 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.25 Apr 27, 2024, 10:42 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 6.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2012-1126") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2012-1143") CVSSv3 severity (based on CVE-2012-1143, severity decreased from "High" to "Medium") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404272242