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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.57929
Category:Gentoo Local Security Checks
Title:Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200611-16 (texinfo)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200611-16.

Texinfo is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.

Solution:
All Texinfo users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5'

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200611-16
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154316

CVSS Score:
4.6

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-4810
BugTraq ID: 20959
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20959
Bugtraq: 20061127 rPSA-2006-0219-1 info install-info texinfo (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452723/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20070404 VMSA-2007-0003 VMware ESX 3.0.1 and 3.0.0 server security updates (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1219 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-16.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:203
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/texinfo/texinfo/util/texindex.c?r1=1.16&r2=1.17
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.034-texinfo.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10893
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22725
http://secunia.com/advisories/22777
http://secunia.com/advisories/22798
http://secunia.com/advisories/22898
http://secunia.com/advisories/22929
http://secunia.com/advisories/22995
http://secunia.com/advisories/23015
http://secunia.com/advisories/23112
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
http://secunia.com/advisories/24788
SGI Security Advisory: 20061101-01-P
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:028 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0063/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-379-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4412
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267
XForce ISS Database: texinfo-texindex-bo(30158)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30158
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