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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51159
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2004:585
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2004:585.

X-Chat is a graphical IRC chat client for the X Window System.

A stack buffer overflow has been fixed in the SOCKSv5 proxy code.
An attacker could create a malicious SOCKSv5 proxy server in such a way
that X-Chat would execute arbitrary code if a victim configured X-Chat to
use the proxy. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0409 to this issue.

Users of X-Chat should upgrade to this erratum package, which contains a
backported security patch, and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-585.html
http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0409
Debian Security Information: DSA-493 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-493
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_123013
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200404-15.xml
http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11312
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-177.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-585.html
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