SuSE 10 Security Update : yast2-backup (ZYPP Patch Number 5739)

This updated of yast2-backup fixes a shellcode injection vulnerability and improves handling of symlinks for the backup process. CVE-2008-4636 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 5768)

Various bugs such as a getunicodename off-by-one buffer overflow, a bug in URL parsing of phishing checks as well as minor other issues have been fixed in clamav. CVE-2008-5050 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : MozillaFirefox (ZYPP Patch Number 5786)

This update brings the Mozilla Firefox browser to version 2.0.0.18. It fixes following security issues : - The http-index-format MIME type parser nsDirIndexParser in Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 does not check for an allocation failure,...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Acrobat Reader (ZYPP Patch Number 5746)

The acroread package was update to fix several security vulnerabilities in the JavaScript engine. CVE-2008-2992 / CVE-2008-2549 / CVE-2008-4812 / CVE-2008-4813 / CVE-2008-4817 / CVE-2008-4816 / CVE-2008-4814 / CVE-2008-4815 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libxml2 (ZYPP Patch Number 5756)

This update fixes an integer overflow in libxml2 that could lead to memory corruption and arbitrary code execution. CVE-2008-4226 Thanks to: Drew Yao of Apple Product Security %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenOffice_org (ZYPP Patch Number 5740)

This update fixes an integer overflow in the WMF handler CVE-2008-2237 and multiple bugs in the EMF parser CVE-2008-2238. Additionally multiple non-security bugs were fixed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Apache 2 (ZYPP Patch Number 5767)

Missing sanity checks of FTP URLs allowed cross-site scripting XSS attacks via the modprodyftp module. CVE-2008-2939 Missing precautions allowed cross-site request forgery CSRF via the modproxybalancer interface. CVE-2007-6420 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ipsec-tools (ZYPP Patch Number 5638)

Remote attackers could exploit memory leaks in the 'racoon' daemon to crash it. CVE-2008-3651 / CVE-2008-3652 %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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : enscript (ZYPP Patch Number 5715)

This update of enscript fixes buffer overflows in the setfilename CVE-2008-3863, processfile and readspecialescape function that can be exploited during file processing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : IBM Java 5 (ZYPP Patch Number 5662)

IBM Java 5 was updated to SR8a to fix a security issue : - A vulnerability in the Java Management Extensions JMX agent when local monitoring is enabled, allowed remote attackers to 'perform unauthorized operations'. CVE-2008-3103 This update also includes new timezone data and fixes missing...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenLDAP 2 (ZYPP Patch Number 5511)

This update fixes a security problem in the liblber client library of openldap that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service program termination via crafted ASN.1 BER datagrams, which triggers an assertion error. CVE-2008-2952 Additionally a bug was fixed in ldapfreeconnection which...

SuSE 10 Security Update : hplip (ZYPP Patch Number 5556)

This update of hplip does not allow to send alert mails as user anymore CVE-2008-2940 and fixes a denial-of-service defect. CVE-2008-2941 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSH (ZYPP Patch Number 5627)

Due to a faulty signal handler repeated login attempts could exhaust the maximum allowed connections and prevent further logins. CVE-2008-4109 A problem where utmp entries where not deleted when users logged out was also fixed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Xgl (ZYPP Patch Number 5528)

This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities reported by iDefense for the included X server : - RENDER Extension heap buffer overflow. CVE-2008-2360 - RENDER Extension crash. CVE-2008-2361 - RENDER Extension memory corruption. CVE-2008-2362 - MIT-SHM arbitrary memory read. CVE-2008-1379 - RECORD an...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Bluetooth utilities (ZYPP Patch Number 5437)

Missing length checks in bluez-libs could cause a buffer overflow in Bluetooth applications. Malicious bluetooth devices could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-2374 Note: The source code of each application that uses vulnerable functions of bluez-libs needs to be adapt...

SuSE 10 Security Update : opensc, opensc-devel (ZYPP Patch Number 5588)

This update fixes a security issues with opensc that occured when initializing blank smart cards with Siemens CardOS M4. After the initialization anyone could set the PIN of the smart card without authorization. CVE-2008-2235 NOTE: Already initialized cards are still vulnerable after this update...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xntp (ZYPP Patch Number 5489)

The ntp daemon did not use supplied keys. The cause of the problem is that the authentication system is initialized after the config is parsed and that the keyfile option is parsed only by storing the keyfile name for later use when the authentication system is initialized. The trustedkey option ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : GnuTLS (ZYPP Patch Number 5601)

Multiple issues have been fixed in gnutls. CVE-2008-1948 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-1, CVE-2008-1949 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-2 and CVE-2008-1950 GNUTLS-SA-2008-1-3 have been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libxml2 (ZYPP Patch Number 5583)

Specially crafted xml files could cause a crash or a heap based buffer overlow in libxml2. CVE-2008-3281 / CVE-2008-3529 %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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : imlib2 (ZYPP Patch Number 5572)

This update fixes two security problems in imlib2. Specially crafted xpm files could trigger a stack based buffer overflow in imlib2 which could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-2426 A crash in PNM handling due to a NULL pointer dereference was fixed. %NASLMINLEVEL 703...