[Backports-security-announce] Security update for devscripts

Adam D. Barratt uploaded new packages for devscripts which fixed the following security problem: CVE-2009-2946: When parsing watch files, uscan applied "mangle rules" by evaluating them as Perl code without any sanitisation. This could have lead to the execution of arbitrary code by users or...

VMSA-2008-0001 : Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages

I Service Console package security updates a. OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow Alexander Sotirov from VMware Security Research discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the OpenPegasus Management server. This flaw could be exploited by a malicious remote user on the service...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : dhcp (MDVSA-2009:154)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ISC DHCP : ISC DHCP Server is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of DHCP requests. If the host definitions are mixed using dhcp-client-identifier and hardware ethernet, a remote attacker could send specially crafted...

ntp

New ntp packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-0159...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : ImageMagick (MDVSA-2008:035)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the image decoders of ImageMagick. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing malicious DCM, DIB, XBM, XCF, or XWD images, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. The updated packages have been patched to...

Mandriva Update for qt4 MDKSA-2007:075-1 (qt4)

Check for the Version of qt4 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for qt4 MDKSA-2007:075-1 qt4 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

SUSE: Security Summary (SUSE-SR:2009:007)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory SUSE-SR:2009:007. SuSE Security Summaries are short on detail when it comes to the names of packages affected by a particular bug. Because of this, while this test will detect out of date packages, it cannot tell you what bugs impact which...

Ubuntu Update for poppler vulnerability USN-496-2

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-496-2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN4962.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for poppler vulnerability USN-496-2 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Application Stack v1.3 security and enhancement update

Red Hat Application Stack v1.3 is now available. This update fixes a security issue and adds several enhancements. This updated has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Red Hat Application Stack is an integrated open source application stack, an...

xorg security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0898 Updated X.org packages that correct a flaw in X.Org's composite extension are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. X.org is an open sour...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDKSA-2006:080)

Ulf Harnhammar discovered that the freshclam tool does not do a proper check for the size of header data received from a web server. This could potentially allow a specially prepared HTTP server to exploit freshclam clients connecting to a database mirror and causing a DoS. The updated packages...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache2-mod_auth_pgsql (MDKSA-2006:009)

iDefense discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the way that modauthpgsql logs information which could potentially be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the apache user if modauthpgsql is used for user authentication. The provided packages have been patched to...

RHEL 4 : openssh (RHSA-2005:527)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:527 advisory. OpenSSH is OpenBSD's SSH Secure SHell protocol implementation. An error in the way OpenSSH handled GSSAPI credential delegation was discovere...

FreeBSD : up-imapproxy -- multiple vulnerabilities (927743d4-5ca9-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

Timo Sirainen reports : There are various bugs in up-imapproxy which can crash it. Since up-imapproxy runs in a single process with each connection handled in a separate thread, any crash kills all the connections and stops listening for new ones. In 64bit systems it might be possible to make it...

[SECURITY] [DSA 674-2] New mailman packages really fix several vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 674-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 601-1] New libgd1 packages fix arbitrary code execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 601-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 29th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mod_ssl/apache2-mod_ssl (MDKSA-2004:122)

A vulnerability in modssl was discovered by Hartmut Keil. After a renegotiation, modssl would fail to ensure that the requested cipher suite is actually negotiated. The provided packages have been patched to prevent this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptiv...

[slackware-security] Mozilla

New Mozilla 1.7.3 packages are available for Slackware 10.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-1.7.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to mozilla-1.7.3. The Mozilla page says this fixes some "minor security holes". It also brea...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : MySQL (MDKSA-2003:057)

In MySQL 3.23.55 and earlier, MySQL would create world-writeable files and allow mysql users to gain root privileges by using the 'SELECT INTO OUTFILE' operator to overwrite a configuration file, which could cause mysql to run as root upon restarting the daemon. This has been fixed upstream in...

RHEL 2.1 : mysql (RHSA-2002:289)

Updated packages are available for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 that fix security vulnerabilities found in the MySQL server. Updated 06 Feb 2003 Added fixed packages for Advanced Workstation 2.1 MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. While auditing MySQL, Stefan Esser fou...