Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libwmf security update

Updated libwmf packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. libwmf is a library for reading and converting Windows Metafile Format WMF vector...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : freetype vulnerability (USN-767-1)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain large values in font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

USN-767-1: FreeType vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain large values in font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : pcre (MDKSA-2007:211)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror, parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the us...

CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : perl (CESA-2007:0966)

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

Mandriva Update for pcre MDKSA-2007:212 (pcre)

Check for the Version of pcre OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for pcre MDKSA-2007:212 pcre Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Mandriva Update for pcre MDKSA-2007:211 (pcre)

Check for the Version of pcre OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for pcre MDKSA-2007:211 pcre Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Mandriva Update for unzip MDVSA-2008:068 (unzip)

Check for the Version of unzip OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for unzip MDVSA-2008:068 unzip Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Mandriva Update for perl MDKSA-2007:207 (perl)

Check for the Version of perl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for perl MDKSA-2007:207 perl Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Ubuntu Update for unzip vulnerability USN-589-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-589-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5891.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for unzip vulnerability USN-589-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for boost vulnerabilities USN-570-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-570-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5701.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for boost vulnerabilities USN-570-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for pcre3 vulnerabilities USN-547-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-547-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5471.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for pcre3 vulnerabilities USN-547-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-624-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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...

Opera: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Opera is a fast web browser that is available free of charge. Description Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Opera: Vitaly McLain reported a heap-based buffer overflow when processing host names in file:// URLs CVE-2008-5178. Alexios Fakos reported a vulnerability in the HTML...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0519-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0519-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Specially crafted JPEG images can be used to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories

Specially crafted JPEG images can be used to execute arbitrary code – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | February 25, 2009 Severity Extremely Severe Problem Description Specially crafted JPEG images can cause Opera to corrupt memory and crash. Successful exploitation can lead to execution of...

GLSA-200902-03 : Valgrind: Untrusted search path

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200902-03 Valgrind: Untrusted search path Tavis Ormandy reported that Valgrind loads a .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, executing commands specified there. Impact : A local attacker could prepare a specially...

USN-624-1: PCRE vulnerability

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the PCRE library did not correctly handle certain in-pattern options. An attacker could cause applications linked against pcre3 to crash, leading to a denial of service...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1602-1] New pcre3 packages fix arbitrary code execution

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1602-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer July 05, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : unzip (RHSA-2008:0196)

Updated unzip packages that fix a security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. An invalid pointer flaw was found in unzip. If a...