RHEL 6 : gegl (RHSA-2012:1455)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62897

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gegl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1455 advisory.

- gegl: Integer overflow, leading to heap-based buffer overflow by parsing PPM image headers (CVE-2012-4433)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL gegl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1455.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d8e0147

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1455

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856300

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62897

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1455.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2012

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4433

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gegl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gegl-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4433

BID: 56404

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2012:1455