[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: perl-5.8.8-26.fc7

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : klamav (klamav-2640)

This updates klamav to the newly released version 0.41 which supports clamav 0.90 and newer. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update klamav-2640. The text description of this plugin is...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : hplip (hplip-4516)

The deamon 'hpssd' could be exploited by users to execute arbitrary commands as root. hpssd only runs on systems that have HP all-in-one devices configured. In the default configuration the problem is not remotely exploitable as hpssd only listens on local interfaces CVE-2007-5208. %NASLMINLEVEL...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : sendmail (sendmail-1607)

Specially crafted MIME messages can crash sendmail and block queue processing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update sendmail-1607. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : openldap2 (openldap2-1917)

This fixes a bug in the Access Control Processing that allowed users with 'selfwrite' access to an attribute to modify arbitrary values of that attribute, instead of just allowing them to add/delete their own DN to/from that attribute. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : phpMyAdmin (phpMyAdmin-1611)

Missing checks of the 'db' parameter could be exploited for cross site scripting attacks CVE-2006-2417. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update phpMyAdmin-1611. The text description of...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : dia (dia-1421)

A format string bug in dia could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update dia-1421. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : snort (snort-1598)

This update fixes an evasion attack on URL parsing. The faulty code is in the httpinspect preprocessor. CVE-2006-2769 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update snort-1598. The text...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : foomatic-filters (foomatic-filters-1436)

A Bug in cupsomatic/foomatic-filters that allowed remote printer users to execute arbitrary commands as the uid of the printer daemon has been fixed CAN-2004-0801. While the same problem was fixed in earlier products, the fix got lost during package upgrade of foomatic-filters. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

[ MDKSA-2007:188 ] - Updated postgresql packages prevent access abuse using dblink

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:188 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : postgresql Date : September 25, 2007 Affected: 2007.0, 2007.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0 Problem Description: PostgreSQL 8.1 and probably later and earlier...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package apache2 version 2.2.6-alt1

Sept. 14, 2007 Aleksey Avdeev 2.2.6-alt1 - 2.2.6 - Adding SECURITY to upstream: + CVE-2007-4465 cve.mitre.org - Updating patchs for 2.2.6: + apache2-2.2.5-alt-debian.conf-0.1.patch to apache2-2.2.6-alt-debian.conf-0.1.patch + apache2-2.2.5-alt-configs-0.1.patch to...

[ MDKSA-2007:166 ] - Updated rsync packages fix off-by-one buffer overflow

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:166 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : rsync Date : August 18, 2007 Affected: 2007.0, 2007.1, Corporate 4.0 Problem Description: Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team discovered an off-by-one...

MDKA-2007:074 : dhcp

The dhcp server from the x8664 package did not offer dhcp replies, this package update fixes the issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a security fix. Disabled on 2012/09/06. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script w...

RHEL 3 : httpd (RHSA-2007:0533)

Updated Apache httpd packages that correct two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Apache HTTP Server is a popular Web server. A flaw was found in th...

Low: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: htdig bug fix update

An updated htdig package that fix various bugs is now available. The htdig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1281-2] New clamav packages fix denial of service vulnerability

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1281-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Noah Meyerhans May 21, 2007 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : clamav Vulnerability :...

[slackware-security] Slackware 11.0 x11-6.9.0 patch fix

A new x11-6.9.0-i486-14slack11.0.tgz patch is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix the inadvertent inclusion of two old fontconfig binaries. Installing the original fontconfig patch followed by the original x11 patch would cause fc-cache and fc-list to be overwritten by old versions, breaking...

[slackware-security] qt

New qt packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2007-0242 Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:...

Debian DSA-1269-1 : lookup-el - insecure temporary file

Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.10-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to thunderbird-1.5.0.10. This upgrade fixes several possible security bugs. For more...