Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libpng
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:051.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:051
Insight
A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in libpng:
Fixed 1-byte buffer overflow in pngpread.c (CVE-2008-3964). This was allready fixed in Mandriva Linux 2009.0.
Fix the function png_check_keyword() that allowed setting arbitrary bytes in the process memory to 0 (CVE-2008-5907).
Fix a potential DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise an application using the library (CVE-2009-0040).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3964, CVE-2008-5907, CVE-2009-0040 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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