Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57624
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:191 (screen)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to screen announced via advisory MDKSA-2006:191. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the utf8 combining characters handling (utf8_handle_comb function in encoding.c) in screen before 4.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or hang) via certain UTF8 sequences. Updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. Affected: 2006.0, 2007.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2006:191 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 2.6
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-4573 20727 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20727 22573 http://secunia.com/advisories/22573 22583 http://secunia.com/advisories/22583 22611 http://secunia.com/advisories/22611 22647 http://secunia.com/advisories/22647 22649 http://secunia.com/advisories/22649 22707 http://secunia.com/advisories/22707 22726 http://secunia.com/advisories/22726 25402 http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 ADV-2006-4189 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4189 ADV-2007-1939 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 APPLE-SA-2007-05-24 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html DSA-1202 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1202 GLSA-200611-01 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-01.xml MDKSA-2006:191 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:191 OpenPKG-SA-2006.026 http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.026-screen.html SSA:2006-307-02 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.480775 USN-370-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-370-1 [screen-users] 20061023 Secfix release for screen: screen-4.0.3 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-734
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