FreeBSD : mplayer -- potential buffer overrun when processing malicious lzo compressed input (9ab3a22c-feb8-11e3-b938-5404a68ad561)

Michael Niedermayer and Luca Barbato report in upstream ffmpeg : avutil/lzo: Fix integer overflow %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and...

chkrootkit 0.49 - Local Root Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits We just found a serious vulnerability in the chkrootkit package, which may allow local attackers to gain root access to a box in certain configurations /tmp not mounted noexec. The vulnerability is located in the function slapper in the...

Chkrootkit 0.49 - Local Privilege Escalation

Chkrootkit 0.49 - Local Privilege Escalation We just found a serious vulnerability in the chkrootkit package, which may allow local attackers to gain root access to a box in certain configurations /tmp not mounted noexec. The vulnerability is located in the function slapper in the shellscript...

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities

The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.10.44 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: The Netlink implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.14.1 does not provide a mechanism for authorizing socket operations based on the opener of a socket, which allows local users to...

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities.

Updated kernel packages fixes security vulnerabilities. The kernel has been updated to the upstream 3.12.21 longterm kernel, and fixes the following security issues: media-device: fix infoleak in ioctl mediaenumentities CVE-2014-1739 The futexrequeue function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel...

USN-2214-3 libxml2 regression

USN-2214-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libxml2. The upstream fix introduced a number of regressions. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Daniel Berrange discovered that libxml2 would incorrectly perform entity substitution even when requested...

openSUSE Security Update : dropbear (openSUSE-SU-2013:1696-1)

dropbear was updated to version 2013.60 to fix following bugs : - Fix 'make install' so that it doesn't always install to /bin and /sbin - Fix 'make install MULTI=1', installing manpages failed - Fix 'make install' when scp is included since it has no manpage - Make --disable-bundled-libtom work ...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1687-1)

XEN was updated to fix various denial of service issues. - bnc789945 - CVE-2012-5510: xen: Grant table version switch list corruption vulnerability XSA-26 - bnc789944 - CVE-2012-5511: xen: Several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs XSA-27 - bnc789940 - CVE-2012-5512: xen:...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1685-1)

This update of XEN fixes various denial of service bugs. - bnc789945 - CVE-2012-5510: xen: Grant table version switch list corruption vulnerability XSA-26 - bnc789944 - CVE-2012-5511: xen: Several HVM operations do not validate the range of their inputs XSA-27 - bnc789940 - CVE-2012-5512: xen:...

openSUSE Security Update : mariadb (openSUSE-2012-274)

mariadb update to version 5.2.12 fixes several security issues and bugs. Please refer to the following upstream announcements for details : http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-5212-release-notes http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-5211-release-notes http://kb.askmonty.org/v/mariadb-5210-release-notes...

openSUSE Security Update : icinga (openSUSE-SU-2014:0069-1)

imported upstream version 1.10.2 - includes fix for possible denial of service in CGI executables: CVE-2013-7108 bnc856837 - core: Add an Icinga syntax plugin for Vim 4150 - LE/MF - core: Document dropped options logexternalcommandsuser and eventprofilingenabled 4957 - BA - core: type in spec...

openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2013:1861-1)

Chromium was updated to 31.0.1650.57: Stable channel update : - Security Fixes : - CVE-2013-6632: Multiple memory corruption issues. - Update to Chromium 31.0.1650.48 Stable Channel update : - Security fixes : - CVE-2013-6621: Use after free related to speech input elements.. - CVE-2013-6622: Use...

openSUSE Security Update : strongswan (openSUSE-SU-2013:0775-1)

Applied upstream patch for security vulnerability discovered by Kevin Wojtysiak in ECDSA signature verification of the strongswan openssl plugin bnc815236, CVE-2013-2944 0003-Check-return-value-of-ECDSAVerify-correctly.patch %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2013:1404-1)

XEN was updated to 4.2.2, fixing lots of bugs and several security issues. Various upstream patches were also merged into this version by our developers. Detailed buglist : - bnc824676 - Failed to setup devices for vm instance when start multiple vms simultaneously - bnc817799 - sles9sp4 guest...

openSUSE Security Update : icinga nagios-rpm-macros (openSUSE-SU-2012:1123-1)

This update fixes the following issues for icinga and nagios-rpm-macros: icinga : - reverted icinga home directory change - added missing dependency to the new recurring downtimes plugin - added a new package which provides the recurring downtimes scripts from contrib...

CentOS 5 / 6 : firefox (CESA-2014:0741)

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libxml2 regression (USN-2214-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2214-2 advisory. USN-2214-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libxml2. The upstream fix introduced a regression when using xmllint with the --postvalid option. This update fixes the proble...

[oss-security] CVE-2014-0476 chkrootkit vulnerability

Hi, Thomas Stangner reported the following chkrootkit vulnerability. We assigned CVE-2014-0476 Cheers, Giuseppe -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Serious chkrootkit vulnerability Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 00:53:00 +0200 From: Thomas Stangner [email protected] Organization: Hetzner...

libtasn1 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0596 Updated libtasn1 packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

RHEL 6 : libtasn1 (RHSA-2014:0596)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0596 advisory. The libtasn1 library provides Abstract Syntax Notation One ASN.1 parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules DER...