[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for virtualbox-ose

Michael Meskes uploaded new packages for virtualbox-ose which fixed the following security problem: Debian Bug 504149 Symlink vulnerability due to bad /tmp handling allowing an attacker to overwrite any files owned by the starting user of virtualbox. For the etch-backports distribution the proble...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for openoffice.org

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for openoffice.org which fixed the following security problems: Debian BTS 496361 left-over debugging echos writing into an insecure temp file can allow attackers to overwrite files on the system with the prvilieges of the user executing senddoc File - Send...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for openoffice.org

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for openoffice.org which fixed the following security problems: Debian BTS 496361 left-over debugging echos writing into an insecure temp file can allow attackers to overwrite files on the system with the prvilieges of the user executing senddoc File - Send...

[Backports-security-announce] Security update for openoffice.org

Rene Engelhard uploaded new packages for openoffice.org which fixed the following security problems: Debian BTS 496361 left-over debugging echos writing into an insecure temp file can allow attackers to overwrite files on the system with the prvilieges of the user executing senddoc File - Send...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for pidgin

Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2008-2957, Debian Bug 488632 The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service memory...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for proftpd-dfsg

Francesco Paolo Lovergine uploaded new packages for proftpd-dfsg which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2008-4242, Debian Bug 502674 ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for proftpd-dfsg

Francesco Paolo Lovergine uploaded new packages for proftpd-dfsg which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2008-4242, Debian Bug 502674 ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery CSRF...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for libspf2

Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for libspf2 which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2008-2469 Fix buffer overflows in DNS response parsing. For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5.dfsg-5+lenny1bpo40+1. For the lenny distribution the problem has...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for libspf2

Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for libspf2 which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2008-2469 Fix buffer overflows in DNS response parsing. For the etch-backports distribution the problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5.dfsg-5+lenny1bpo40+1. For the lenny distribution the problem has...

Debian DSA-1529-1 : firebird -- multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple security problems have been discovered in the Firebird database, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. This Debian security advisory is a bit unusual. While it's normally our strict policy to backport security bugfixes to older releases, this turned out...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1529-1] New Firebird packages fix several vulnerabilities

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1529-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff March 24, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-1529-1 firebird - multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple security problems have been discovered in the Firebird database, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service. This Debian security advisory is a bit unusual. While it's normally our strict policy to backport security bugfixes to older releases, this turned out ...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1421-1] New wesnoth packages fix arbitrary file disclosure

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1421-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 6th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: bind bug fix update

Updated bind packages are available. BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. The bind package provides a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses, and tools for control and verification of the DNS server. The bind-libs...