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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56035
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:875
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2005:875.

cURL is a tool for getting files from FTP, HTTP, Gopher, Telnet, and Dict
servers, using any of the supported protocols.

Stefan Esser discovered an off-by-one bug in curl. It may be possible to
execute arbitrary code on a user's machine if the user can be tricked into
executing curl with a carefully crafted URL. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-4077 to this issue.

All users of curl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch that resolves 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-2005-875.html

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.6

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 17951
BugTraq ID: 15756
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-4077
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15756
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951
Bugtraq: 20051207 Advisory 24/2005: libcurl URL parsing vulnerability (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418849/100/0/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA06-132A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-919 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-919
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-December/msg00020.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-09.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-25.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:224
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59032
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_242005.109.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10855
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-875.html
SCO Security Bulletin: SCOSA-2006.16
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.16/SCOSA-2006.16.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/17907
http://secunia.com/advisories/17960
http://secunia.com/advisories/17961
http://secunia.com/advisories/17965
http://secunia.com/advisories/17977
http://secunia.com/advisories/18105
http://secunia.com/advisories/18188
http://secunia.com/advisories/18336
http://secunia.com/advisories/19261
http://secunia.com/advisories/19433
http://secunia.com/advisories/19457
http://secunia.com/advisories/20077
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0072/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/228-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2791
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0960
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
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