Debian DLA-80-1 : libxml2 security update

Sogeti found a denial of service flaw in libxml2, a library providing support to read, modify and write XML and HTML files. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would lead to excessive CPU consumption denial of service...

Fedora 13 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 (2010-14640)

This package fixes a security problem CVE-2010-2055 in ghostscript whereby gs uses the current working directory to look for certain types of system file. This has been fixed by changing the default behaviour. Additionally, several other bugs have been fixed: scripts defining GSEXECUTABLE have be...

Fedora Core 6 : gnupg-1.4.7-2 (2007-315)

This updates GnuPG to version 1.4.7, changing the default behavior so that gnupg now flags message streams which contain multiple plaintexts as an error. This prevents errors which would occur when applications which called gnupg assumed that this was already the default behavior. Note that Tenab...

Fedora Core 5 : gnupg-1.4.7-1 (2007-316)

This updates GnuPG to version 1.4.7, changing the default behavior so that gnupg now flags message streams which contain multiple plaintexts as an error. This prevents errors which would occur when applications which called gnupg assumed that this was already the default behavior. Note that Tenab...

Debian DSA-1075-1 : awstats - programming error

Hendrik Weimer discovered that awstats can execute arbitrary commands under the user id the web-server runs when users are allowed to supply arbitrary configuration files. Even though, this bug was referenced in DSA 1058 accidentally, it was not fixed yet. The new default behaviour is not to acce...

Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through the browser — Mozilla

Several media players, for example Flash and QuickTime, support scripted content with the ability to open URLs in the default browser. The default behavior for Firefox was to replace the currently open browser window's content with the externally opened content. If the external URL was a...