SuSE9 Security Update : acpid (YOU Patch Number 9486)

This update removes the possibility for a local DoS attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid41337; scriptversion"1.8";...

SuSE9 Security Update : libpng, libpng-devel (YOU Patch Number 12339)

This update of libpng fixes the function pngcheckkeyword that allowed setting arbitrary bytes in the process memory to 0. CVE-2008-5907 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : PostgreSQL (YOU Patch Number 11509)

This update fixes two vulnerabilities that affect the backend server and can only be exploited by authenticated users to cause a denial-of-service, or maybe to access other tables/databases without authentication. CVE-2007-0555 CVE-2007-0556 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

SuSE 10 Security Update : CUPS (ZYPP Patch Number 6279)

The 'pdftops' was prone to several integer overflows CVE-2009-0791. The cups daemon could crash when receiving IPP requests with multiple unsupported tags. CVE-2009-0949 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Xine (SAT Patch Number 643)

Specially crafted 4x movie files could cause an integer overflow in xine-lib. CVE-2009-0698 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Python (ZYPP Patch Number 5837)

Integer Overflows in the python imageop module and in the expandtabs method potentially allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4864 / CVE-2008-5031 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 859)

Firefox version upgrade to 3.0.10 to fix a crash in nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun. CVE-2009-1313 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : fetchmail (ZYPP Patch Number 6409)

This update of fetchmail improves SSL certificate validation to stop possible man-in-the-middle attacks by inserting \0-character in the certificate's subject name. CVE-2009-2666 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dbus (ZYPP Patch Number 5969)

The dbus package used a too permissive configuration. Therefore intended access control for some services was not applied. CVE-2008-4311 The new configuration denies access by default. Some dbus services may break due to this setting and need an updated configuration as well. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

SuSE9 Security Update : libvorbis (YOU Patch Number 12159)

Several security problems were fixed in libvorbis : - Division by zero. CVE-2008-1419 - integer overflow. CVE-2008-1420 - integer overflow. CVE-2008-1423 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 11 Security Update : PHP5 (SAT Patch Number 1015)

This update fixes the JSON parser CVE-2009-1271 and the zip packer code CVE-2009-1272 in php5. Both bugs can lead to a remote denial of service attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update...

SuSE 11 Security Update : ClamAV (SAT Patch Number 749)

ClamAV update to version 0.95. This also fix some potential security bugs. CVE-2009-1241 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : gstreamer (SAT Patch Number 742)

Specially crafted cover art tags in vorbis files could trigger a heap overflow in the base64 decoder. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-0586 if !definedfunc"nasllevel" || nasllevel = 70000 && nasllevel = 70200 && nasllevel = 80000 && nasllevel 80502 exit...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhclient (ZYPP Patch Number 6335)

The DHCP client dhclient could be crashed by a malicious DHCP server sending a overlong subnet field. CVE-2009-0692 In some circumstances code execution might be possible, but might be caught by the buffer overflow checking in newer distributions. SLES 10 and 11. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

SuSE9 Security Update : Python (YOU Patch Number 12046)

Specially crafted images could trigger an integer overflow in the imageop module. CVE-2007-4965 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid41186;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : quagga (ZYPP Patch Number 6240)

This update fixes a remote denial of service bug in quagga that can be triggered via an AS path containing ASN elements whose string representation is longer than expected. CVE-2009-1572 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : libtiff (YOU Patch Number 12229)

A buffer underflow CVE-2008-2327 has been fixed in libtiff. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid41236; scriptversion"1.8";...

SuSE 11 Security Update : libwmf (SAT Patch Number 822)

A specially crafted WMF files could crash libwmf. CVE-2009-1364 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml2 (YOU Patch Number 12350)

A previous security fix for libxml2 caused problems when processing large xml files. The patch has been reworked so processing large files works again. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 6003)

A allocation mistake in libpng's pngread.c has been fixed. CVE-2009-0040 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid41547;...