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Fedora 21 : mingw-libpng-1.6.19-1.fc21 (2015-8a1243db75)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89313

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

libpng 1.6.19 release, fixing CVE-2015-8126

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 mingw-libpng package.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?3c9b2c22

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89313

File Name: fedora_2015-8a1243db75.nasl

Version: 2.5

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: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw-libpng, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8126