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Category: SuSE Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 8 Mar 2010
Synopsis:

The remote SuSE system is missing a security patch for libnetpbm-devel

Description:

This update of netpbm fxes a stack-based buffer overflow that could be triggered while processing the contents of XPM headers in image files. (CVE-2009-4274: CVSS v2 Base
Score: 5.8 (moderate) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P): Buffer
Errors (CWE-119))

See also:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579903
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4274

Solution:

Run yast to install the security patch for libnetpbm-devel

Risk factor:

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.5
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)