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USN286-1 : dia vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
dia vulnerabilities

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

These remote packages are missing security patches :
- dia
- dia-common
- dia-gnome
- dia-libs

Description :

Several format string vulnerabilities have been discovered in dia. By
tricking a user into opening a specially crafted dia file, or a
file with a specially crafted name, this could be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with the user's rights.

Solution :

Upgrade to :
- dia-0.94.0-11ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10)
- dia-common-0.94.0-11ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10)
- dia-gnome-0.94.0-11ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10)
- dia-libs-0.94.0-11ubuntu1.2 (Ubuntu 5.10)

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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