Summary
The remote host is missing an update to glib2
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-2688.
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-2009-2688
Insight
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
This package provides version 2 of GLib.
Update Information:
This update fixes possible integer overflows in the base64 handling functions.
This has been reported in CVE-2008-4316.
ChangeLog:
* Thu Mar 12 2009 Matthias Clasen - 2.16.6-3
- Fix integer overflows in the base64 handling functions. CVE-2008-4316
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-4316 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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