Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56063
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0164
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2006:0164. The mod_auth_pgsql package is an httpd module that allows user authentication against information stored in a PostgreSQL database. Several format string flaws were found in the way mod_auth_pgsql logs information. It may be possible for a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the 'apache' user if mod_auth_pgsql is used for user authentication. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-3656 to this issue. Please note that this issue only affects servers which have mod_auth_pgsql installed and configured to perform user authentication against a PostgreSQL database. All users of mod_auth_pgsql should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. This issue does not affect the mod_auth_pgsql package supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. Red Hat would like to thank iDefense for reporting 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-2006-0164.html Risk factor : Critical CVSS Score: 10.0
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 16153 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3656 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16153 Debian Security Information: DSA-935 (Google Search) http://www.debian.de/security/2006/dsa-935 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-05.xml http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=367 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:009 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10600 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0164.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1015446 http://secunia.com/advisories/18304 http://secunia.com/advisories/18321 http://secunia.com/advisories/18347 http://secunia.com/advisories/18348 http://secunia.com/advisories/18350 http://secunia.com/advisories/18397 http://secunia.com/advisories/18403 http://secunia.com/advisories/18463 http://secunia.com/advisories/18517 SGI Security Advisory: 20060101-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060101-01-U http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/239-1/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0070
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2006 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com

This is only one of 146377 vulnerability tests in our test suite. Find out more about running a complete security audit. To run a free test of this vulnerability against your system, register below.