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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55545
Category:Gentoo Local Security Checks
Title:Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200510-04 (Texinfo)
Summary:The remote host is missing updates announced in;advisory GLSA 200510-04.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200510-04.

Vulnerability Insight:
Texinfo is vulnerable to symlink attacks, potentially allowing a local user
to overwrite arbitrary files.

Solution:
All Texinfo users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r1'

CVSS Score:
1.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3011
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html
BugTraq ID: 14854
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14854
Bugtraq: 20070404 VMSA-2007-0003 VMware ESX 3.0.1 and 3.0.0 server security updates (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1219 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-06:01
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:01.texindex.asc
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-04.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:175
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328365
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10589
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014992
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015468
http://secunia.com/advisories/16816
http://secunia.com/advisories/17070
http://secunia.com/advisories/17076
http://secunia.com/advisories/17093
http://secunia.com/advisories/17211
http://secunia.com/advisories/17215
http://secunia.com/advisories/18401
http://secunia.com/advisories/22929
http://secunia.com/advisories/23112
http://secunia.com/advisories/24788
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402
SGI Security Advisory: 20061101-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:023 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-194-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939
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