Fedora 23 : libpng12-1.2.56-1.fc23 (2015-39499d9af8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89213

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Latest upstream release, includes fixes for security vulnerabilities:
CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8540

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 libpng12 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276416

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281756

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291312

http://www.nessus.org/u?9c813799

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89213

File Name: fedora_2015-39499d9af8.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpng12, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8472, CVE-2015-8540