[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: dpkg-1.15.5.6-4.fc12

This package contains the tools including dpkg-source required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages. This package also contains the programs dpkg which used to handle the installation and removal of packages on a Debian system. This package also contains dselect, an interface for...

RHEL 4 / 5 : java-1.5.0-bea (RHSA-2008:1044)

java-1.5.0-bea as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary, contains security flaws and should not be used. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The BEA WebLogic JRockit JRE and SDK...

bitchx EOLed in Slackware

This is a notice that bitchx, an IRC client based on ircii-EPIC4, has been removed from Slackware -current and will not be part of future Slackware releases. Security issues and bugs have been reported, but upstream work seems to have stalled leaving bitchx in a state where there are known proble...

Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation

Background Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of the Java Development Kit JDK and Java Runtime Environment JRE. Description Adam Gowdiak discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment's Reflection APIs that may allow untrusted applets to elevate privileges. Impact...

MDKSA-2001:023 - cups update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory Package name: cups Date: February 22nd, 2001 Advisory ID: MDKSA-2001:023 Affected versions: 7.2 Problem Description: A number of problems were found by the SuSE security team recently during an internal audit of...

[SECURITY] ftpwatch package has major security problems

We have found that the ftpwatch package as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and later distributions has a security problem which makes it trivial for users to gain root access. We recommend that you remove the ftpwatch package immediately. We will be working on a new version of ftpwatch to...