SuSE 10 Security Update : pam_ldap (ZYPP Patch Number 2196)

pamldap in nssldap does not return an error condition when an LDAP directory server responds with a PasswordPolicyResponse control response, which causes the pamauthenticate function to return a success code even if authentication has failed, as originally reported for xscreensaver. CVE-2006-5170...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xpdf (ZYPP Patch Number 4644)

A buffer overflow in xpdf 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. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : texinfo (ZYPP Patch Number 2263)

Specially crafted texinfo files could crash texinfo utilities like texi2dvi and potentially execute code. CVE-2006-4810 %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 : apache2-mod_python (ZYPP Patch Number 4449)

This update fixes a buffer overflow in apache2-modpython that occurs while using python-based output-filter. This bug can be triggered remotely to read possibly confidential data from the process space of the web-server and in rare cases to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2004-2680 %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

SuSE 10 Security Update : vim and gvim (ZYPP Patch Number 4095)

This update of Vim addresses a format-string bug in 'helptags'. This bug can be exploited to execute code with the privileges of the user running Vim. CVE-2007-2953 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 3740)

Applications using libpng can crash if libpng is ask to process a grayscale image with a malformed bad CRC tRNS chunk. CVE-2007-2445 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gpg2 (ZYPP Patch Number 1834)

It is possible to crash denial of service the GNU Privacy Guard gpg by supplying a specifically crafted message specifying a very large UID, which leads to an out of memory situation or an integer overflow. It is unclear if this problem can be exploited to execute code. This issue is tracked by t...

SuSE 10 Security Update : open-iscsi (ZYPP Patch Number 4035)

This update fixes some possible vulnerabilities in the open-iscsi daemon. CVE-2007-3099 / CVE-2007-3100 %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 scriptid29533;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Qt (ZYPP Patch Number 3047)

qt wongly 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 descriptio...

SuSE 10 Security Update : krb5-apps-servers and krb5-apps-clients (ZYPP Patch Number 1938)

Various return checks of setuid and seteuid calls have been fixed in kerberos client and server applications. If these applications are setuid, it might have been possible for local attackers to gain root access. CVE-2006-3083 We are not affected by the seteuid problems, tracked by CVE-2006-3084...

SuSE 10 Security Update : compat-openssl097g (ZYPP Patch Number 2163)

A buffer overflow condition within the SSLgetsharedciphers function and a DoS condition known as 'parasitic public keys' have been fixed. The later problem allowed attackers to trick the OpenSSL engine to spend an extraordinary amount of time to process public keys. The following CAN numbers have...

SuSE 10 Security Update : kdebase3 (ZYPP Patch Number 3407)

A problem with the interaction between the Flash Player and the Konqueror webbrowser was fixed. The problem could lead to keypresses leaking to the applet instead of the browser. CVE-2007-2022 This update of khcindexbuilder also restricts the commands that can be executed with EGID 'man'...

SuSE 10 Security Update : KDE (ZYPP Patch Number 4433)

Users could log in as root without having to enter the password if auto login was enabled and if kdm was configured to require the root passwort to shutdown the system. CVE-2007-4569 JavaScript code could modify the URL in the address bar to make the currently displayed website appear to come fro...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSL (ZYPP Patch Number 4477)

This update of openssl fixes a off-by-one buffer overflow in function SSLgetsharedciphers. This vulnerability potentially allows remote code execution; depending on memory layout of the process. CVE-2007-5135 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSL (ZYPP Patch Number 4559)

A buffer overflow in the DTLS implementation of openssl could be exploited by attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-4995 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : krb5-apps-servers (ZYPP Patch Number 3022)

When using the krb5 telnet daemon it was possible for remote attackers to override authentication mechanisms and gain root access to the machine by supplying a special username. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2007-0956. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libtiff (ZYPP Patch Number 1908)

This update of libtiff is the result of a source-code audit done by Tavis Ormandy. It fixes various bugs that can lead to denial-of-service conditions as well as to remote code execution while parsing a tiff image. CVE-2006-3459 / CVE-2006-3460 / CVE-2006-3461 / CVE-2006-3462 / CVE-2006-3463 /...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gpg (ZYPP Patch Number 1959)

This update of gpg fixes an segmentation fault when using the--no-armor option. This failure leads to a denial-of-service attack and may be used execute arbitrary code. CVE-2006-3746 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gimp (ZYPP Patch Number 1920)

A buffer overflow was fixed in the xcf loader in GIMP that allows user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XCF file with a large numaxes value in the VECTORS property. CVE-2006-3404 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Python (ZYPP Patch Number 2167)

A buffer overflow within python's repr function has been fixed. The CAN number CVE-2006-4980 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...