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RHEL 3 : kdepim (RHSA-2004:005)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12447

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated kdepim packages are now available that fix a local buffer overflow vulnerability.

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop for the X Window System. The KDE Personal Information Management (kdepim) suite helps you to organize your mail, tasks, appointments, and contacts.

The KDE team found a buffer overflow in the file information reader of VCF files. An attacker could construct a VCF file so that when it was opened by a victim it would execute arbitrary commands. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0988 to this issue.

Users of kdepim are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages which contain a backported security patch that corrects this issue.

Solution

Update the affected kdepim and / or kdepim-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2003-0988

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040114-1.txt

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:005

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12447

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2004-005.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdepim, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:kdepim-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0988

RHSA: 2004:005