CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
80.9%
The remote host is missing an update to libpng
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6506.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64238");
script_version("2023-07-18T05:05:36+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-18 05:05:36 +0000 (Tue, 18 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-06-23 15:49:15 +0200 (Tue, 23 Jun 2009)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2042");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_name("Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-6506 (libpng)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/fedora", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=FC11");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files. PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.
Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.
Update Information:
Update to libpng 1.2.37, to fix CVE-2009-2042. This is a pretty low-risk issue,
but it's been classified as a security issue...
ChangeLog:
* Sat Jun 13 2009 Tom Lane 2:1.2.37-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.37, to fix CVE-2009-2042
Related: #504782");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-6506");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to libpng
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-6506.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504782");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libpng", rpm:"libpng~1.2.37~1.fc11", rls:"FC11")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libpng-devel", rpm:"libpng-devel~1.2.37~1.fc11", rls:"FC11")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libpng-static", rpm:"libpng-static~1.2.37~1.fc11", rls:"FC11")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libpng-debuginfo", rpm:"libpng-debuginfo~1.2.37~1.fc11", rls:"FC11")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}