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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.67698
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 13 FEDORA-2010-10642 (gv)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to gv
announced via advisory FEDORA-2010-10642.

Update Information:

- Update to 3.7.1 to fix CVE-2010-2055 and CVE-2010-2056
- Disable international support to avoid segfault on exit

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #599621 - CVE-2010-2056 gv: Insecure (predictable) temporary file use
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599621
[ 2 ] Bug #599564 - CVE-2010-2055 GhostScript: Honors files present in cwd at startup
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gv' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum,
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2010-10642

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.2

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2055
20100522 Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511433
20100526 Re: Ghostscript 8.64 executes random code at startup
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511472
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511474
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511476
40452
http://secunia.com/advisories/40452
40475
http://secunia.com/advisories/40475
40532
http://secunia.com/advisories/40532
66247
http://www.osvdb.org/66247
ADV-2010-1757
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1757
FEDORA-2010-10642
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043948.html
FEDORA-2010-10660
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/043913.html
GLSA-201412-17
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
RHSA-2012:0095
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
SUSE-SR:2010:014
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583183
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583316
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691339
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6368
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608071
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599564
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2056
66249
http://www.osvdb.org/66249
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599621
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