TCP Window Size Enforcement (CVE-2008-4609; CVE-2009-1925; CVE-2009-1926)

TCP/IP is a set of networking protocols that are widely used on the Internet. TCP/IP provides communications across interconnected networks of computers that have diverse hardware architectures and that run various operating systems. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in TCP/IP processing in Microsof...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: fetchmail-6.3.8-9.fc10

Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections. Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the Internet POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6, and IPSEC for retrieval...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.6.1-1.fc11

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: pidgin-2.6.1-1.fc10

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.6.0-1.fc11

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: pidgin-2.6.0-1.fc10

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1181

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1181. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS, and tools...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1179

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1179. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System DNS protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools...

The Value of Self-Enforcing Protocols

By Bruce Schneier There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to find someone impartial to do it for them. This works, but it requires another person. Another way is for one person to divide the piece, and the other person to complain to the police, a judge, o...

Password cracking (NASL wrappers common options)

This plugin sets options for the various password cracking tools. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Remote password cracking - common options Based on hydra scripts by Michel Arboi Authors: Vlatko Kosturjak This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GN...

SNMP Supported Protocols Detection

Extend the SNMP settings data already gathered by testing for\ SNMP versions other than the highest negotiated. TRUSTED...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: bind-9.5.1-3.P3.fc10

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

CentOS 3 : bind (CESA-2009:1181)

"Updated bind packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System...

RHEL 4 : bind (RHSA-2009:1180)

"Updated bind packages that fix a security issue and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is an implementation of the Domain Name System...

[Backports-security-announce] Security Update for pidgin

Gerfried Fuchs uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2009-1373 Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin formerly Gaim before 2.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an outbound XMPP...

Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:147 (pidgin)

The remote host is missing an update to pidgin announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:147. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: pidgin-2.5.8-1.fc9

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: pidgin-2.5.8-1.fc10

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.5.8-1.fc11

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: openssl-0.9.8g-9.14.fc9

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols...