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Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-2657 (glib2)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Fedora Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to glib2 announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-2657.

Insight

Insight

Update Information: This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling code. This has been reported in CVE-2008-4316. ChangeLog: * Thu Mar 12 2009 Matthias Clasen - 2.18.4-2 - Fix integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. CVE-2008-4316 * Fri Jan 9 2009 Matthias Clasen - 2.18.4-1 - Update to 2.18.4 * Mon Nov 24 2008 Matthias Clasen - 2.18.3-2 - Update to 2.18.3

Solution

Solution

Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update glib2' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-2657

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