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 : 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 : tar (ZYPP Patch Number 2344)

This security update fixes a directory traversal in tar, where unpacked symlinks could be followed outside of the directory where the tar file is unpacked. CVE-2006-6097 The problematic feature has been made optional and is disabled by default. It can be enabled by a commandline switch...

SuSE 10 Security Update : perl-Net-DNS (ZYPP Patch Number 4046)

perl-Net-DNS used sequential IDs for DNS lookups which could cause problem with some programs like spamassassin. It potentially also simplified DNS spoofing attacks against perl-Net-DNS. CVE-2007-3377 Additionally malformed compressed DNS packets could trigger an endless loop in perl-Net-DNS...

SuSE 10 Security Update : kdegraphics3 (ZYPP Patch Number 2301)

The KFILE JPEG plugin that is responsible for displaying meta-data of JPEG files was affected by some old common vulnerabilities in EXIF handling. A JPEG file could be prepapred with an EXIF section with endless recursion that would overflow the stack and cause the plugin and so the image browser...

SuSE 10 Security Update : tar (ZYPP Patch Number 4171)

This update fixes a bug in function safernamesuffix of tar which leads to a crashing stack. Exploitability is unknown. %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 : xorg-x11-server (ZYPP Patch Number 1913)

This security update fixes crashes in the PCF handling, which might be used to crash the Xserver using applications or even to execute code in them. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : flac (ZYPP Patch Number 4569)

Multiple integer overflows in flac could potentially be exploited by attackers via specially crafted files to execute code in the context of the user opening the file. CVE-2007-4619 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Cups (ZYPP Patch Number 4667)

A buffer overflow in the xpdf code contained in cups could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-4352 / CVE-2007-5392 / CVE-2007-5393 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gpg2 (ZYPP Patch Number 2354)

Specially crafted files could overflow a buffer when gpg2 was used in interactive mode. CVE-2006-6169 - Specially crafted files could modify a function pointer and execute code this way. CVE-2006-6235 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

SuSE 10 Security Update : heartbeat (ZYPP Patch Number 1978)

This update fixes both a local and a remote denial of service attack within heartbeat, as well as numerous other bugs in the messaging and membership layer, GUI, Cluster Resource Manager, Local Resource Manager and Resource Agents. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gnutls (ZYPP Patch Number 2117)

A security problem was fixed in the GNU TLS library, where excess data was not checked during signature checking with RSA keys with exponent 3. This problem could be used to fake those RSA signatures. CVE-2006-4790 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this...

SuSE 10 Security Update : inkscape (ZYPP Patch Number 3061)

Several format string problems where fixed in inkscape. - A format string vulnerability in Inkscape allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a URI, which is not properly handled by certain dialogs. CVE-2007-1463 - Format string vulnerability ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : kdegraphics3-pdf (ZYPP Patch Number 4682)

A buffer overflow in the xpdf code contained in kpdf could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-4352 / CVE-2007-5392 / CVE-2007-5393 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 2258)

This update brings MozillaFirefox to the security update release 1.5.0.8, including the following security fixes. Full details can be found on: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabiliti es.html - Is split into 3 sub-entries, for ongoing stability improvements in the Mozilla...

SuSE 10 Security Update : cups (ZYPP Patch Number 3716)

The previous cups update CVE-2007-0720 was incomplete and could lead to cupsd crashing. %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 scriptid29411;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : openldap2 (ZYPP Patch Number 4679)

This update fixes multiple flaws that could cause slapd to crash. CVE-2007-5707 / CVE-2007-5708 %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 scriptid29536;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : liblcms,liblcms-devel (ZYPP Patch Number 4626)

This update addresses security bugs in liblcms that occurred while parsing ICC profiles in JPEG images. CVE-2007-2741 Remote attackers can exploit this bug to execute arbitrary commands or cause denial-of-service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Java 1.4.2 (ZYPP Patch Number 2426)

The SUN Java packages have been upgraded to 1.4.2 update 13 to fix various security problems. %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 scriptid29471;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libexif5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3723)

A denial of service problem crash was fixed in the EXIF Loader of libexif, which could be used to crash the browser or image viewer when it interprets the EXIF tags in prepared JPEG files. CVE-2007-2645 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...