Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51092
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2004:005
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2004:005. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop for the X Window System. The KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite helps you to organize your mail, tasks, appointments, and contacts. The KDE team found a buffer overflow in the file information reader of VCF files. An attacker could construct a VCF file so that when it was opened by a victim it would execute arbitrary commands. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0988 to this issue. Users of kdepim are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages which contain a backported security patch that corrects 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-2004-005.html http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040114-1.txt Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.5
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 9419 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0988 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9419 Bugtraq: 20040114 KDE Security Advisory: VCF file information reader vulnerability (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107412130407906&w=2 CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#820798 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/820798 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2004:810 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000810 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200404-02.xml http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:003 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A858 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A865 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-005.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-006.html XForce ISS Database: kde-kdepim-bo(14833) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14833
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