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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55870
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Legacy Security Advisory FLSA-2005:123013
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory FLSA-2005:123013.

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the X-Chat's Socks-5 proxy
code. An attacker could create a malicious Socks-5 proxy server in such
a way that X-Chat would execute arbitrary code if a victim configured
X-Chat to use the proxy. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0409 to this
issue.

Users of X-Chat should upgrade to this updated package which contains a
backported security patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Affected platforms:
Fedora Core 1
Fedora Core 2

Solution:
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FLSA-2005:123013

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0409
Debian Security Information: DSA-493 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-493
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_123013
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200404-15.xml
http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11312
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-177.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-585.html
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