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Fedora Core 4 2005-622: yelp

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the yelp package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2005-622 (yelp).

Yelp is the Gnome 2 help/documentation browser. It is designed
to help you browse all the documentation on your system in
one central tool.

Update Information:

Yelp is a help documentation browser for the GNOME environment.

There were several security flaws found in the mozilla package, which
yelp depends on. Users of yelp are advised to upgrade to this updated
package which has been rebuilt against a version of mozilla not vulnerable
to these flaws.

Solution : http://fedoranews.org//mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Core_4_Update:_yelp-2.10.0-1.4.1
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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