SUSE-SA:2005:016: Mozilla Firefox

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:016 Mozilla Firefox. This security update for Mozilla Firefox fixes following problems: - CVE-2005-0231: 'Fire tabbing' The javascript security manager usually prevents that a javascript: URL from one host is opened in a window...

SUSE-SA:2005:059: RealPlayer

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:059 RealPlayer. The following security issue in RealPlayer was fixed: - A format string bug in the RealPix .rp file format parser CVE-2005-2710. This bug allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-242-03)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

gaim

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some security issues. including: AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. More details about...

CVE-2002-2089

CVE-2002-2089 is a vulnerability in Solaris 9.0 where the rcp component suffers a buffer overflow, exploitable by a local user via a long command line argument, potentially allowing arbitrary code execution. The description across sources consistently identifies a local-privilege impact with the ...

SUSE-SA:2005:044: kernel

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:044 kernel. The Linux kernel is the core component of the Linux system. This update fixes various security as well as non-security problems discovered since the last round of kernel updates. Not all kernels are affected by all the...

CVE-2005-2304

Microsoft MSN Messenger 9.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via an image with an ICC Profile with a large Tag Count...

Oracle Reports Server 6.0.8/9.0.x - XML File Disclosure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14311/info Oracle Reports Server may allow remote attackers to disclose parts of arbitrary XML files. Reportedly, the server fails to restrict users from accessing parts of arbitrary XML files when handling specially crafted HTTP GET requests. All version...

Slackware 9.0 : quotacheck security fix in rc.M (SSA:2003-141-06)

An upgraded sysvinit package is available which fixes a problem with the use of quotacheck in /etc/rc.d/rc.M. The original version of rc.M calls quotacheck like this: echo 'Checking filesystem quotas: /sbin/quotacheck -avugM' /sbin/quotacheck -avugM The 'M' option is wrong. This causes the...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : rsync update (SSA:2004-124-01)

New rsync packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix a security issue. When running an rsync server without the chroot option it is possible for an attacker to write outside of the allowed directory. Any sites running rsync in that mode should upgrade right away and...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / current : Sendmail vulnerabilities fixed (SSA:2003-260-02)

The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current have been patched to fix security problems. These issues seem to be remotely exploitable, so all sites running sendmail should upgrade right away. Sendmail's 8.12.10 announcement may be found here: http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / current : nfs-utils off-by-one overflow fixed (SSA:2003-195-01)

New nfs-utils packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and -current to fix an off-by-one buffer overflow in xlog.c. Thanks to Janusz Niewiadomski for discovering and reporting this problem. The CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project has assigned the identification number...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 : EPIC4 security fixes (SSA:2003-141-01)

New EPIC4 packages are available to fix security problems found by Timo Sirainen. EPIC4 is an IRC Internet Relay Chat client. Under certain circumstances, a malicious IRC server could cause EPIC4 to crash, or possibly to run arbitrary code as the user running EPIC4. All sites running EPIC4 are...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : lftp security update (SSA:2003-346-01)

lftp is a file transfer program that connects to other hosts using FTP, HTTP, and other protocols. A security problem with lftp has been corrected with the release of lftp-2.6.10. New packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current. Any sites using lftp should upgrade to the new...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : cvs (SSA:2004-161-01)

New cvs packages that have been upgraded to cvs-1.11.17 are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and -current to fix various security issues. Sites running a CVS server should upgrade to the new CVS package right away. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

Slackware 9.0 : 2.4.21 kernels available (SSA:2003-168-01)

Precompiled Linux 2.4.21 kernels and source packages are now available for Slackware 9.0 and -current. These provide an improved version of the ptrace fix that had been applied to 2.4.20 in Slackware 9.0 for example, command line options now appear correctly when root does 'ps ax', and fix a...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : cvs security update (SSA:2004-108-02)

CVS is a client/server version control system. As a server, it is used to host source code repositories. As a client, it is used to access such repositories. This advisory affects both uses of CVS. A security problem which could allow a server to create arbitrary files on a client machine, and...

PHP packages updated again for 8.1, 9.0, 9.1

Sorry folks, I mistakenly used a build template that was too new to build the first round of PHP packages for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1, which tried to place the module in /usr/libexec/apache older versions of Slackware use /usr/libexec instead, and tried to link to incorrect libraries and...

CVE-2004-2097

Multiple scripts on SuSE Linux 9.0 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on 1 /tmp/fvwm-bug created by fvwm-bug, 2 /tmp/wmmenu created by wm-oldmenu2new, 3 /tmp/rates created by x11perfcomp, 4 /tmp/xf86debug.1.log created by xf86debug, 5 /tmp/.winpopup-new created by...

CVE-2004-2097

Multiple scripts on SuSE Linux 9.0 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on 1 /tmp/fvwm-bug created by fvwm-bug, 2 /tmp/wmmenu created by wm-oldmenu2new, 3 /tmp/rates created by x11perfcomp, 4 /tmp/xf86debug.1.log created by xf86debug, 5 /tmp/.winpopup-new created by...