[slackware-security] kde

New kdelibs and kdebase packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. More details about this issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0689...

[slackware-security] Mozilla

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix a number of security issues. Slackware 10.0 and -current were upgraded to Mozilla 1.7.2, and Slackware 9.1 was upgraded to Mozilla 1.4.3. As usual, new versions of Mozilla require new versions of things that link with...

RHEL 2.1 : apache (RHSA-2003:360)

Updated Apache packages that fix a minor security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Apache HTTP server is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server. An issue in the handling of regular expressions from configuration files was discovered in...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : krb5 (RHSA-2004:236)

Updated Kerberos 5 krb5 packages which correct buffer overflows in the krb5anametolocalname function are now available. Kerberos is a network authentication system. Bugs have been fixed in the krb5anametolocalname library function. Specifically, buffer overflows were possible for all Kerberos...

RHEL 2.1 : vnc (RHSA-2002:287)

Updated VNC packages are available to fix a challenge replay attack that is present in the VNC server. VNC is a tool for providing a remote graphical user interface. The VNC DES authentication scheme is implemented using a challenge-response architecture, producing a random and different challeng...

RHEL 2.1 : sendmail (RHSA-2003:074)

Updated Sendmail packages are available to fix a vulnerability that may allow remote attackers to gain root privileges by sending a carefully crafted message. Updated March 18 2003 Added packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS. Sendmail is a widely used Mail...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : Updated CVS packages fix security issue

Updated cvs packages that fix a client vulnerability that could be exploited by a malicious server are now available. Updated Apr 19 2004 The description text has been updated to include CAN-2004-0405 which was also fixed but not mentioned when this advisory was first released. There has been no...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated sysstat packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated sysstat packages that fix various bugs and a minor security issue are now available. Sysstat is a tool for gathering system statistics. A bug was found in the Red Hat sysstat package post and trigger scripts, which used insecure temporary file names. A local attacker could overwrite syste...

[SECURITY] [DSA 431-1] New perl packages fix information leak in suidperl

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 431-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman February 1st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: : : : New rsync packages fix remote security vulnerability

Updated rsync packages are now available that fix a heap overflow in the Rsync server. rsync is a program for sychronizing files over the network. A heap overflow bug exists in rsync versions prior to 2.5.7. On machines where the rsync server has been enabled, a remote attacker could use this fla...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated EPIC packages fix security vulnerability

Updated EPIC packages which fix an exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability are now available. EPIC Enhanced Programmable ircII Client is an advanced ircII chat client designed to connect to Internet Relay Chat IRC servers. A bug in various versions of EPIC allows remote malicious IRC servers to...

KDE packages updated

New KDE packages are available for Slackware 9.0. These address a security issue where Konqueror may leak authentication credentials. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.0 ChangeLog: Fri Aug 1 15:15:51 PDT 2003 patches/packages/kde/: Upgraded to KDE 3.1.3. Note that this update addresses a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated KDE packages fix security issue

Updated KDE packages that resolve a vulnerability in KDE's SSL implementation are now available. KDE is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. KDE versions 2.2.2 and earlier have a vulnerability in their SSL implementation that makes it possible for users of Konqueror and other...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated gnupg packages fix validation bug

Updated gnupg packages correcting a bug in the GnuPG key validation functions are now available. The GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG is a utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. When evaluating trust values for different UIDs assigned to a given key, GnuPG versions earlier than 1.2.2...

[SECURITY] [DSA-303-1] New mysql packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 303-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman May 15th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: : Updated man packages fix minor vulnerability

Updated man packages fix a minor security vulnerability. The man package includes tools for finding and displaying online documentation. Versions of man before 1.51 have a bug where a malformed man file can cause a program named "unsafe" to be run. To exploit this vulnerability a local attacker...

[SECURITY] [DSA 293-1] New kdelibs packages fix arbitrary command execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 293-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 23rd, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 208-1] New Perl packages correct Safe handling

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 208-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 12th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 178-1] New Heimdal packages fix remote command execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 178-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 17th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 149-2] New glibc packages fix

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 149-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 26th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...