Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120508 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-181.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11505
http://www.osvdb.org/5726
http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/3a408f6f-9c52-11d8-9366-0020ed76ef5a.html
Insight
The following packages are affected:
linux-png
png
CVE-2004-0421
The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2004-0421 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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