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Fedora 17 : gd-2.0.35-17.fc17 (2012-9298)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59799

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update, that fixes insufficient input validation in
_gdGetColors().

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 gd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830745

http://www.nessus.org/u?05b398e5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59799

File Name: fedora_2012-9298.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3546

BID: 36712

FEDORA: 2012-9298