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Scientific Linux: CVE-2005-0706 Moderate: gnome-vfs2 Buffer Overflow

Calendar Jan 07, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Moderate: gnome-vfs2 security update 
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:30:14 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for gnome-vfs2 on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: gnome-vfs2 security update
Issue date:	2009-01-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2005-0706

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the GNOME virtual file system when
handling data returned by CDDB servers. If a user connected to a malicious
CDDB server, an attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on
the victim's machine. (CVE-2005-0706)

All running GNOME sessions must be restarted for the update to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
gnome-vfs2-2.2.5-2E.3.3.src.rpm
 i386:
gnome-vfs2-2.2.5-2E.3.3.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-devel-2.2.5-2E.3.3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
gnome-vfs2-2.2.5-2E.3.3.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-2.2.5-2E.3.3.x86_64.rpm
gnome-vfs2-devel-2.2.5-2E.3.3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.src.rpm
 i386:
gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-devel-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-smb-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.x86_64.rpm
gnome-vfs2-devel-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.x86_64.rpm
gnome-vfs2-smb-2.8.2-8.7.el4_7.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson