Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2000:040)

A bug was discovered in ld.so that could allow local users to obtain root privileges. The dynamic loader, ld.so, is responsible for making shared libraries available within a program at run-time. Normally, a user is allowed to load additional shared libraries when executing a program; they can be...

VMSA-2012-0013 VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third party libraries.

The remote ESXi is missing one or more security related Updates from VMSA-2012-0013. Summary VMware has updated several third party libraries in vSphere and vcOps to address multiple security vulnerabilities. Relevant releases VMware vCenter 4.1 without Update 3 VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.1...

VMSA-2012-0013 : VMware vSphere and vCOps updates to third-party libraries

a. vCenter and ESX update to JRE 1.6.0 Update 31 The Oracle Sun JRE is updated to version 1.6.031, which addresses multiple security issues. Oracle has documented the CVE identifiers that are addressed by this update in the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory of February 2012. b. vCente...

Fedora Update for python FEDORA-2012-5892

Check for the Version of python OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for python FEDORA-2012-5892 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 term...

Fedora Update for SimGear FEDORA-2012-8650

Check for the Version of SimGear OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for SimGear FEDORA-2012-8650 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...

Fedora Update for glibc FEDORA-2012-11927

Check for the Version of glibc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for glibc FEDORA-2012-11927 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 terms...

Fedora Update for SimGear FEDORA-2012-8615

Check for the Version of SimGear OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for SimGear FEDORA-2012-8615 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...

CentOS Update for glibc CESA-2012:1207 centos5

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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.9

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

Oracle Java SE Java Runtime Environment Unspecified Vulnerability - Windows

Oracle Java SE is prone to an unspecified vulnerability. 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...

Oracle Java SE Java Runtime Environment Unspecified Vulnerability - (Windows)

This host is installed with Oracle Java SE and is prone to unspecified vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gboraclejavaseunspecifiedvulnwin.nasl 7699 2017-11-08 12:10:34Z santu $ Oracle Java SE Java Runtime Environment Unspecified Vulnerability - Windows Authors: Madhuri D Copyright:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: glibc-2.15-56.fc17

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: glibc-2.15-54.fc17

The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important se...

PostgreSQL for Linux Payload Execution

On some default Linux installations of PostgreSQL, the postgres service account may write to the /tmp directory, and may source UDF Shared Libraries from there as well, allowing execution of arbitrary code. This module compiles a Linux shared object file, uploads it to the target host via the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: ecryptfs-utils-99-1.fc16

eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in Linux kernel versions 2.6.19 and above. This package provides the mount helper and supporting libraries to perform key management and mount functions. Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ecryptfs-utils-99-1.fc17

eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem that ships in Linux kernel versions 2.6.19 and above. This package provides the mount helper and supporting libraries to perform key management and mount functions. Install ecryptfs-utils if you would like to mount eCryptfs...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL4.x i386/x86_64 (20120213)

The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly. An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120718)

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function properly. It was discovered that the formatted printing functionality in glibc did not properly restrict the use of alloca. This...

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

A race condition was discovered in nssldap which affected certain applications which make LDAP connections, such as Dovecot. This could cause nssldap to answer a request for information about one user with information about a different user. CVE-2007-5794 In addition, these updated packages fix t...

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

A flaw was found in the way OpenLDAP handled NUL characters in the CommonName field of X.509 certificates. An attacker able to get a carefully-crafted certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority could trick applications using OpenLDAP libraries into accepting it by mistake, allowing the...