CVE-2008-4578

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associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.", "lastModified": "2008-10-24T00:00:00", "organization": "Red Hat"}], "sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com"}