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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55562
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-847-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dia' package(s) announced via the DSA-847-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'dia' package(s) announced via the DSA-847-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Joxean Koret discovered that the Python SVG import plugin in dia, a vector-oriented diagram editor, does not properly sanitise data read from an SVG file and is hence vulnerable to execute arbitrary Python code.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.0-7sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.94.0-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your dia package.

Affected Software/OS:
'dia' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.1

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2966
BugTraq ID: 15000
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15000
Debian Security Information: DSA-1025 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1025
Debian Security Information: DSA-847 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-847
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-06.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:187
http://secunia.com/advisories/17047
http://secunia.com/advisories/17059
http://secunia.com/advisories/17083
http://secunia.com/advisories/17095
http://secunia.com/advisories/17108
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:022 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_22_sr.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/193-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1950
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