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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56847
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0541
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2006:0541.

The Dia drawing program is designed to draw various types of diagrams.

Several format string flaws were found in the way dia displays certain
messages. If an attacker is able to trick a Dia user into opening a
carefully crafted file, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the
user running Dia. (CVE-2006-2453, CVE-2006-2480)

Users of Dia should update to these erratum packages, which contain
backported patches 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-2006-0541.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2453
1016203
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016203
18166
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18166
20254
http://secunia.com/advisories/20254
20339
http://secunia.com/advisories/20339
20422
http://secunia.com/advisories/20422
20457
http://secunia.com/advisories/20457
20513
http://secunia.com/advisories/20513
FEDORA-2006-580
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-May/msg00119.html
GLSA-200606-03
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-03.xml
MDKSA-2006:093
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:093
RHSA-2006:0541
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0541.html
SUSE-SR:2006:012
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-06-02.html
USN-286-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/286-1/
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2006-May/msg00099.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192830
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11600
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11600
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-2480
BugTraq ID: 18078
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18078
http://kandangjamur.net/tutorial/dia.txt
http://www.osvdb.org/25699
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11224
http://secunia.com/advisories/20199
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:012 (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/433313/30/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1908
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