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MDKA-2006:015: gthumb

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the gthumb package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory MDKA-2006:015 (gthumb).

A bug was discovered in gthumb were the UI (User Interface) can
get corrupted when importing photos in some non-UTF8 locales (such
as French). Some text strings (returned from libgphoto) where not
converted into UTF-8 before being used by GTK+.
Updated packages have been patched to correct the issue.

Solution : http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKA-2006:015
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2007 Tenable Network Security

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