Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200809-01 (yelp)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200809-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

yelp: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background yelp is the default help browser for GNOME. Description Aaron Grattafiori reported a format string vulnerability in the windowerror function in yelp-window.c. Impact A remote attacker can entice a user to open specially crafted "man:" or "ghelp:" URIs in yelp, or an application using...