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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55971
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-916-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'inkscape' package(s) announced via the DSA-916-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'inkscape' package(s) announced via the DSA-916-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Inkscape, a vector-based drawing program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2005-3737

Joxean Koret discovered a buffer overflow in the SVG parsing routines that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2005-3885

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena noticed that the ps2epsi extension shell script uses a hardcoded temporary file making it vulnerable to symlink attacks.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain inkscape packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.41-4.99.sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.42.2+0.43pre1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your inkscape package.

Affected Software/OS:
'inkscape' 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-2005-3737
BugTraq ID: 15507
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15507
Debian Security Information: DSA-916 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-916
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200511-22.xml
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330894
http://secunia.com/advisories/17651
http://secunia.com/advisories/17662
http://secunia.com/advisories/17778
http://secunia.com/advisories/17882
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/58
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2005:028 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_28_sr.html
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn/usn-217-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2511
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3885
BugTraq ID: 14522
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14522
http://secunia.com/advisories/16343
http://secunia.com/advisories/17886
https://usn.ubuntu.com/223-1/
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