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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58986 |
Category: | Red Hat Local Security Checks |
Title: | RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0701 |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2007:0701. The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that cannot use the window system directly. A bug was found in the way xterm packages were built that caused the pseudo-terminal device files of the xterm emulated terminals to be owned by the incorrect group. This flaw did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 and earlier. (CVE-2007-2797) All users of xterm are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a patch to correct 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-2007-0701.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 2.1 |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2797 BugTraq ID: 26710 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26710 Bugtraq: 20070823 FLEA-2007-0048-1 xterm (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477632/100/100/threaded Bugtraq: 20070823 rPSA-2007-0169-1 xterm (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477469/100/0/threaded http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=349924 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10421 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0701.html http://secunia.com/advisories/26562 http://secunia.com/advisories/27617 http://secunia.com/advisories/27921 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3066 |
Copyright | Copyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com |
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