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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51171
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2004:464
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2004:464.

Midnight Commander (mc) is a visual shell much like a file manager.

Shell escape bugs have been discovered in several of the mc vfs backend
scripts. An attacker who is able to influence a victim to open a
specially-crafted URI using mc could execute arbitrary commands as the
victim. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CVE-2004-0494 to this issue.

Users of mc should upgrade to this updated package which contains
backported patches 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-2004-464.html

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0494
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1944
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9854
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-373.html
XForce ISS Database: gnome-vfs-extfs-gain-access(16897)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16897
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