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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57277
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0648
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2006:0648.

The kdegraphics package contains graphics applications for the K Desktop
Environment.

Tavis Ormandy of Google discovered a number of flaws in libtiff during a
security audit. The kfax application contains a copy of the libtiff code
used for parsing TIFF files and is therefore affected by these flaws.
An attacker who has the ability to trick a user into opening a malicious
TIFF file could cause kfax to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2006-3459, CVE-2006-3460, CVE-2006-3461, CVE-2006-3462, CVE-2006-3463,
CVE-2006-3464, CVE-2006-3465)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is not vulnerable to these issues as kfax uses
the shared libtiff library which has been fixed in a previous update.

Users of kfax should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches and are not vulnerable to 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-2006-0648.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3459
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006//Aug/msg00000.html
BugTraq ID: 19283
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19283
BugTraq ID: 19289
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19289
Cert/CC Advisory: TA06-214A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-214A.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-1137 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1137
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200608-07.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:136
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:137
http://secunia.com/blog/76
http://www.osvdb.org/27723
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11497
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0603.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0648.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016628
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016671
http://secunia.com/advisories/21253
http://secunia.com/advisories/21274
http://secunia.com/advisories/21290
http://secunia.com/advisories/21304
http://secunia.com/advisories/21319
http://secunia.com/advisories/21334
http://secunia.com/advisories/21338
http://secunia.com/advisories/21346
http://secunia.com/advisories/21370
http://secunia.com/advisories/21392
http://secunia.com/advisories/21501
http://secunia.com/advisories/21537
http://secunia.com/advisories/21598
http://secunia.com/advisories/21632
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036
http://secunia.com/advisories/27181
http://secunia.com/advisories/27222
http://secunia.com/advisories/27832
SGI Security Advisory: 20060801-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060801-01-P
SGI Security Advisory: 20060901-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.536600
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103160-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201331-1
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2006:044 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_44_libtiff.html
http://lwn.net/Alerts/194228/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-330-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3101
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3105
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3486
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4034
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3460
BugTraq ID: 19288
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19288
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11265
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3461
BugTraq ID: 19290
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19290
http://www.osvdb.org/27725
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9910
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3462
BugTraq ID: 19282
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19282
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304063
http://www.osvdb.org/27726
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11301
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3463
BugTraq ID: 19284
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19284
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10639
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3464
BugTraq ID: 19286
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19286
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10916
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-3465
BugTraq ID: 19287
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19287
http://www.osvdb.org/27729
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9067
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