[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: jabberd-2.2.17-1.fc18

The jabberd project aims to provide an open-source server implementation of the Jabber protocols for instant messaging and XML routing. The goal of this project is to provide a scalable, reliable, efficient and extensible server that provides a complete set of features and is up to date with the...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2003-266-01 New OpenSSH packages

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2003-266-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa200326601.nasl 6598 2017-07-07 09:36:44Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from the corresponding slackware advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2003-266-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssh (MDKSA-2000:068-1)

A vulnerability exists with all versions of OpenSSH prior to 2.3.0 with regards to the X11 forwarding and ssh-agent. If agent or X11 forwarding is disabled in the ssh client configuration, the client does not request these features during session setup. However, when the ssh client receives an...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDKSA-2000:082-1)

The pamlocaluser module, which is a part of the pam package, contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This module is not used in any default configuration and for a user to be exploited, they would have to manually insert it into a configuration file in the /etc/pam.d directory. Update : The pam...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sudo (MDKSA-2001:024-1)

A buffer overflow exists in the sudo program which could be used by an attacker to obtain higher privileges. sudo is a program used to delegate superuser privileges to ordinary users and only for specific commands. Update : The sudo package for 7.1 used the system-auth facility of newer pam...

Fedora Update for jabberd FEDORA-2012-12487

Check for the Version of jabberd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for jabberd FEDORA-2012-12487 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: jabberd-2.2.14-4.fc17

The jabberd project aims to provide an open-source server implementation of the Jabber protocols for instant messaging and XML routing. The goal of this project is to provide a scalable, reliable, efficient and extensible server that provides a complete set of features and is up to date with the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: jabberd-2.2.14-4.fc16

The jabberd project aims to provide an open-source server implementation of the Jabber protocols for instant messaging and XML routing. The goal of this project is to provide a scalable, reliable, efficient and extensible server that provides a complete set of features and is up to date with the...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201206-31 (pam)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201206-31. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201206-31 (pam)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201206-31. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam on SL5.x

Problem description : A flaw was found in the way pamconsole set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to another local user. CVE-2007-1716 A flaw was found in the way the PAM...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam on SL6.x i386/x86_64

It was discovered that the pamnamespace module executed the external script namespace.init with an unchanged environment inherited from an application calling PAM. In cases where such an environment was untrusted for example, when pamnamespace was configured for setuid applications such as su or...

Scientific Linux Security Update : tog-pegasus on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

During a security audit, a stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the PAM authentication code in the OpenPegasus CIM management server. An unauthenticated remote user could trigger this flaw and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2008-0003 Users of tog-pegasus...

Scientific Linux Security Update : vixie-cron on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times. The vixie-cron package adds improved security and more powerful configuration options to the standard version of cron. A race condition was found in the way t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : wireshark on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Wireshark. If Wireshark read a malformed packet off a network, it could crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code as the user running Wireshark. CVE-2008-3146 Several denial of service flaws were found in Wireshark. Wireshark could crash or stop...

Scientific Linux Security Update : coreutils on SL4.x i386/x86_64

The coreutils packages were found to not use the pamsucceedif Pluggable Authentication Module PAM correctly in the configuration file for the 'su' command. Any local user could use this command to change to a locked or expired user account if the target account's password was known to the user...

Scientific Linux Security Update : conga on SL5.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in ricci during a code audit. A remote attacker who is able to connect to ricci could cause ricci to temporarily refuse additional connections, a denial of service CVE-2007-4136. Fixes in this updated package include : - The nodename is now set for manual fencing. - The node log ...

Scientific Linux Security Update : vsftpd on SL3.x i386/x86_64

The version of vsftpd as shipped in Scientific Linux 3 when used in combination with Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM had a memory leak on an invalid authentication attempt. Since vsftpd prior to version 2.0.5 allows any number of invalid attempts on the same connection this memory leak could...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pam on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way pamconsole set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to another local user. CVE-2007-1716 A flaw was found in the way the PAM library wrote account...