Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-638-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Aaron Grattafiori discovered that the Gnome Help Viewer did not handle format strings correctly when displaying certain error messages. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Affected
yelp vulnerability on Ubuntu 7.10 ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-3533 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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