Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51809
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:277
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2005:277. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. A bug was found in the Mozilla string handling functions. If a malicious website is able to exhaust a system's memory, it becomes possible to execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-0255 to this issue. Please note that other security issues have been found that affect Mozilla. These other issues have a lower severity, and are therefore planned to be released as additional security updates in the future. Users of Mozilla should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and are not vulnerable to these issues. 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-2005-277.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-18.html Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 12659 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0255 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12659 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=200&type=vulnerabilities https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A100040 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9111 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-277.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:016 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_mozilla_firefox.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2006:022 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
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