Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : dpkg, ia32-libs, amd64-libs vulnerabilities (USN-151-2)

USN-148-1 and USN-151-1 fixed two security flaws in zlib, which could be exploited to cause Denial of Service attacks or even arbitrary code execution with malicious data streams. Most applications use the shared library provided by the 'zlib1g' package; however, some packages contain copies of t...

giflib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background giflib is a library for reading and writing GIF images. Description Chris Evans and Daniel Eisenbud independently discovered two out-of-bounds memory write operations and a NULL pointer dereference in giflib. Impact An attacker could craft a malicious GIF image and entice users to load...

Fedora Core 3 : htdig-3.2.0b6-3.FC3.1 (2005-367)

Tue Apr 19 2005 Phil Knirsch 3:3.2.0b6-3.FC3.1 - Fixed security bug with unescaped output in htsearch and qtest 144127 - Removed .la and .a libs from package 145649 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable...

Fedora Core 4 : rpm-4.4.1-22 (2005-565)

This update corrects security problem CVE-2005-2096. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora Core 4 : krb5-1.4.1-5 (2005-553)

A double-free flaw was found in the krb5recvauth routine which may be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker. Fedora Core 4 contains checks within glibc that detect double-free flaws. Therefore, on Fedora Core 4, successful exploitation of this issue can only lead to a denial of service K...

zlib: Buffer overflow

Background zlib is a widely used free and patent unencumbered data compression library. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a buffer overflow in zlib. A bounds checking operation failed to take invalid data into account, allowing a specifically malformed...

Linux news 09.05.00

FOR ALL Поздравляю всех с Днем Победы ! Всего вам хорошего ... и давайте все-таки не забывать наших предков ... Kernel Traffic 66 Вышел очередной выпуск Linux Kernel Traffic, обзора обсуждаемых тем в списке разработчиков ядра. Подробнее: http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt2000050766print.ep...