SuSE9 Security Update : libgsf (YOU Patch Number 11342)

Specially crafted OLE documents enabled attackers to use a heap buffer overlow for executing code. CVE-2006-4514 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : gnutls (YOU Patch Number 11228)

A security problem in the GNU TLS library has been found : If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used, the PKCS padding gets removed before generating a hash, which allows remote attackers to forge a PKCS signature that apapears to be signed by that RSA key and prevents gnutls from correctly verifying...

SuSE9 Security Update : ruby (YOU Patch Number 11442)

The ruby package was updated to fix a denial of service problem in its CGI module when parsing multipart MIME messages. CVE-2006-6303 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; i...

SuSE9 Security Update : PHP4 (YOU Patch Number 12049)

This update fixes multiple bugs in php : - several problems in pcre CVE-2007-1660, CVE-2006-7225, CVE-2006-7224, CVE-2006-7226 CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2006-7230 - Flaws in processing multi byte sequences in htmlentities/htmlspecialchars. CVE-2007-5898 - overly long arguments to the dl function could...

SuSE9 Security Update : nagios-www (YOU Patch Number 10984)

An integer overflow exists within the handling of HTTP headers by CGIs. This could lead to arbitrary code execution by remote attackers on behalf of the Nagios CGI scripts. CVE-2006-2162 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of...

SuSE9 Security Update : mutt (YOU Patch Number 11094)

Mutt has a buffer overflow in IMAP namespace parsing code which may open a possible remote vulnerability. CVE-2006-3242 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : libsoup (YOU Patch Number 11401)

This update fixes a bug in the HTTP header parsing code. Applications using this library maybe vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service attack. CVE-2006-5876 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'...

SuSE9 Security Update : gzip (YOU Patch Number 11220)

Several security issues with gzip have been found that can be exploited to compromise the system in conjunction with other programs while processing malformed archive files. The vulnerabilities have been tracked by Mitre CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337 and CVE-2006-4338...

SuSE9 Security Update : Apache 2 (YOU Patch Number 12000)

Apache2 contains a copy of the pcre library. Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in the pcre library. Applications using pcre to process regular expressions from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code...

SuSE9 Security Update : snort (YOU Patch Number 11055)

This update fixes an evasion attack on URL parsing. The faulty code is in the httpinspect preprocessor. CVE-2006-2769 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : screen (YOU Patch Number 11260)

A special formed UTF-8 sequence in text could be used to crash the terminal multitasker screen by overwriting memory in the heap. This is potentially exploitable to execute code. CVE-2006-4573 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, In...

SuSE9 Security Update : MySQL (YOU Patch Number 12175)

The database server mySQL was updated to fix two security problems : - MySQL allowed local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified 1 DATA DIRECTORY or 2 INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are within the MySQL home data directory, which can poin...

SuSE9 Security Update : openldap2-client (YOU Patch Number 11307)

OpenLDAP libldap's strval2strlen function contained a bug when processing the authcid string of certain Bind Requests, which could allow attackers to cause an affected application especially the OpenLDAP Server to crash. CVE-2006-5779 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE9 Security Update : pam_ldap (YOU Patch Number 11259)

pamldap in nssldap does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pamauthenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver. CVE-2006-5170...

SuSE9 Security Update : arts (YOU Patch Number 11075)

The KDE soundserver aRts lacked checks around some setuid calls. This could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. CVE-2006-2916 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : Apache (YOU Patch Number 12125)

This update fixes multiple bugs in apache : - cross-site scripting problem when processing the 'Expect' header. CVE-2006-3918 - cross-site scripting problem in modimap. CVE-2007-5000 - cross-site scripting problem in modstatus. CVE-2007-6388 - cross-site scripting problem in the ftp proxy module...

SuSE9 Security Update : xsupplicant (YOU Patch Number 11386)

xsupplicant has been upgraded to version 1.2.8, which includes bugfixes and one security fix : - A post-authentication stack overflow in the EAP handling could be used by already authenticated attacker to overflow a stack buffer and so potentially execute code. CVE-2006-5601 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

SuSE9 Security Update : gdm (YOU Patch Number 11050)

This update solves a bug in GDM. This bug allows to bypass root authorization to access the login configuration. CVE-2006-2452 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

SuSE9 Security Update : texinfo (YOU Patch Number 11299)

Specially crafted texinfo files could crash texinfo utilities like texi2dvi and potentially execute code. CVE-2006-4810 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

SuSE9 Security Update : Red Carpet (YOU Patch Number 11461)

This update fixes a bug in the HTTP header parsing code of the included libsoup. This bug makes rcd vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service attack. CVE-2006-5876 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...