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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.54436
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2005:612
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2005:612.

kdelibs contains libraries for the K Desktop Environment.

A flaw was discovered affecting Kate, the KDE advanced text editor, and
Kwrite. Depending on system settings, it may be possible for a local user
to read the backup files created by Kate or Kwrite. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-1920 to
this issue.

Please note this issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 2.1.

Users of Kate or Kwrite should update to these errata packages which
contains a backported patch from the KDE security team correcting 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-2005-612.html
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 14297
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1920
1014512
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014512
14297
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14297
16099
http://secunia.com/advisories/16099
20050718 [KDE Security Advisory]: Kate backup file permission leak
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112171434023679&w=2
23099
http://secunia.com/advisories/23099
DSA-804
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-804
FLSA:178606
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427976/100/0/threaded
GLSA-200611-21
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-21.xml
RHSA-2005:612
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-612.html
SUSE-SR:2005:018
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9434
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9434
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