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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.50980 |
Category: | Red Hat Local Security Checks |
Title: | RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2003:009 (WindowMaker) |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2003:009. Window Maker is an X11 window manager that emulates the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP graphical user interface. Al Viro found a buffer overflow in Window Maker 0.80.0 and earlier which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a certain image file that is not properly handled when Window Maker uses width and height information to allocate a buffer. A user can exploit this vulnerability, for example, by opening a malicious theme. Users of Window Maker are advised to upgrade to these updated packages which contain a patch to correct this vulnerability. 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-2003-009.html Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.5 |
Cross-Ref: |
BugTraq ID: 6119 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2002-1277 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6119 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2002:548 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000548 Debian Security Information: DSA-190 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-190 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-085.php http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-009.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-043.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10560.php |
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