SuSE 10 Security Update : Qt3 (ZYPP Patch Number 3052)

qt wrongly accepts overly long UTF-8 sequences due to a bug in the UTF-8 decoder. This may lead to security problems unter certain circumstances. The bug for example allows for script tag injection in konqueror. CVE-2007-0242 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text descripti...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Kerberos 5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3046)

A bug in the function krb5klogsyslog leads to a buffer overflow which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-0957 A double-free bug in the GSS-API library could crash kadmind. It's potentially also exploitable to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-1216 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ZYPP Patch Number 2224)

A denial of service problem in the CGI multipart parsing of 'ruby' was fixed, which could have allowed remote attackers to affect a denial of service attack against ruby based webservices. CVE-2006-5467 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ZYPP Patch Number 2028)

A security problem was fixed in ethereal, which could be used by remote attackers to hang the ethereal process. - If the SSCOP dissector has a port range configured AND the SSCOP payload protocol is Q.2931, a malformed packet could make the Q.2931 dissector use up available memory. No port range ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : bind (ZYPP Patch Number 2041)

This update fixes two vulnerabilities in bind that allow a remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service attack. VU697164 - BIND INSIST failure due to excessive recursive queries, VU915404 - BIND assertion failure during SIG query processing %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. T...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSH (ZYPP Patch Number 2257)

The OpenSSH release 4.5 contains a security fix which has been backported to the openssh versions in our old products. - Incorrect return argument checking in the privilege separation monitor was fixed. In case of an exploitable unprivileged helper this could have been used to elevate privileges...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ImageMagick (ZYPP Patch Number 3131)

This update of ImageMagick fixes three integer overflow in DCM and XWD code. These bugs can be exploited remotely via other application. CVE-2007-1667 / CVE-2007-1797 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xfsdump (ZYPP Patch Number 3159)

The program xfsfsr created a temporary directory with unrestricted read and write permissions. %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 scriptid29597;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xscreensaver (ZYPP Patch Number 3241)

xscreensaver could crash under certain circumstances causing the screen to unlock. That could happen for example when LDAP is used for authentication and the network connection gets interrupted for a long time. CVE-2007-1859 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text descriptio...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 1942)

This version update to 0.88.4 fixes among other things a security relevant buffer overflow in the UPX-Decoder. %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 : PHP5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3290)

This Update fixes numerous vulnerabilities in PHP. Most of them were made public during the 'Month of PHP Bugs'. The vulnerabilities potentially lead to crashes, information leaks or even execution of malicious code. CVE-2007-1380 / CVE-2007-0988 / CVE-2007-1375 / CVE-2007-1521 / CVE-2007-1376 /...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (ZYPP Patch Number 2449)

X server: ProcRenderAddGlyphs Memory Corruption Vulnerability. This update fixes a memory corruption in the ProcRenderAddGlyphs function CVE-2006-6101. X server: ProcDbeGetVisualInfo Memory Corruption Vulnerability. This update fixes a memory corruption in the ProcDbeGetVisualInfo function...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 2243)

The virus scan engine ClamAV was update to version 0.88.6. Following issues are fixed by this update : - freshclam: apply timeout patch from Everton da Silva Marques new options: ConnectTimeout and ReceiveTimeout - clamd: change stack size at the right place closes clamav bug103 -...

SuSE 10 Security Update : YaST2 (ZYPP Patch Number 4623)

This update fixes a security bug in yast2-core that allowed local attackers to provide malicious yast2 modules to yast2 that are executed with root privileges. To trigger this vulnerability root has to execute yast2 in an untrusted directory i.e. /tmp. Thanks to Stefan Nordhausen for reporting th...

SuSE 10 Security Update : jasper (ZYPP Patch Number 3139)

This update fixes two problems in libjasper that occured while parsing image files. Both bugs lead to memory corruption. %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 : Tk (ZYPP Patch Number 4478)

This update fixes a buffer overflow that occurs while processing interlaced/animatedGIF images. CVE-2007-4851 This bug could be used to execute code remotely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : mozilla-nss,mozilla-nss-devel (ZYPP Patch Number 2067)

A security problem in the SSL handling of the NSS libraries was found : If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible to forge a PKCS verify the certificate if they are not checking for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature. This bug is tracked by the Mitre CVE ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 2631)

This update to ClamAV version 0.90 fixes various bugs : - A filedescriptor leak in the handling of CAB files can lead to a denial of service attack against the clamd scanner daemon caused by remote attackers. CVE-2007-0897 - A directory traversal in handling of MIME E-Mail headers could be used b...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Novell GroupWise client (ZYPP Patch Number 4494)

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the GroupWise system that allows a malicious user to intercept authentication credentials through a 'man in the middle' attack. CVE-2007-5195 / CVE-2007-5196 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 2325)

The sPLT chunk handling in libpng was incorrect and a handcrafted PNG file could be use to cause an out-of-bounds read, effectively crashing the PNG viewer or webbrowser. CVE-2006-5793 Additionally a 2 byte stackoverflow was fixed which we do not believe to be exploitable. It will cause an abort ...