SuSE 10 Security Update : Websphere Community Edition (ZYPP Patch Number 6312)

This update of WebSphere fixes the following vulnerabilities : - GERONIMO-3838: close potential denial of service attack - fix Apache Geronimo web administration console directory traversal vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-5518 - fix Apache Geronimo web administration console XSS vulnerabilities...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml2 (YOU Patch Number 12301)

libxml2 could run into an endless loop when processing specially crafted XML files. CVE-2008-4225 %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 scriptid41257;...

SuSE 11 Security Update : libapr-util1 (SAT Patch Number 969)

This update of libapr-util1 fixes a memory consumption bug in the XML parser that can cause a remote denial-of-service vulnerability in applications using APR WebDAV for example CVE-2009-1955. Additionally a one byte buffer overflow in function aprbrigadevprintf CVE-2009-1956 and buffer underflow...

SuSE9 Security Update : vim and gvim (YOU Patch Number 11722)

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 : CUPS (ZYPP Patch Number 5296)

specially crafted PNG files could cause an integer overflow in the png filter. CVE-2008-1693 - specially crafted pdf files with embedded fonts could crash pdftops. CVE-2008-1693 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : MySQL (YOU Patch Number 12175)

The database server mySQL was updated to fix two security problems : - MySQL allowed local users to bypass certain privilege checks by calling CREATE TABLE on a MyISAM table with modified 1 DATA DIRECTORY or 2 INDEX DIRECTORY arguments that are within the MySQL home data directory, which can poin...

SuSE9 Security Update : openldap2-client (YOU Patch Number 11307)

OpenLDAP libldap's strval2strlen function contained a bug when processing the authcid string of certain Bind Requests, which could allow attackers to cause an affected application especially the OpenLDAP Server to crash. CVE-2006-5779 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Kerberos (SAT Patch Number 738)

Clients sending negotiation requests with invalid flags could crash the kerberos server. CVE-2009-0845 GSS-API clients could crash when reading from an invalid address space. CVE-2009-0844 Invalid length checks could crash applications using the kerberos ASN.1 parser. CVE-2009-0847 Under certain...

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...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml.rpm (YOU Patch Number 12504)

This update of libxml does not use pointers after they were freed anymore. CVE-2009-2416 Additionally a stack-based buffer overflow was fixed while parsing the root XML document. CVE-2009-2414 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, In...

SuSE 11 Security Update : flash-player (SAT Patch Number 1149)

Specially crafted Flash SWF files can cause a buffer overflow in flash-player. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-1862 / CVE-2009-0901 / CVE-2009-2395 / CVE-2009-2493 / CVE-2009-1863 / CVE-2009-1864 / CVE-2009-1865 / CVE-2009-1866 / CVE-2009-1867 /...

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...

SuSE9 Security Update : mutt (YOU Patch Number 12505)

This update of mutt improves the handling of the \0 character in SSL certificates. CVE-2009-2408 %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 scriptid41326;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 6326)

This update of libpng improves the parsing of 1-bit interlaced images. This bug could be abused to use 'out-of-bounds pixels' to read memory. CVE-2009-2042 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 11 Security Update : ipsec-tools (SAT Patch Number 998)

This update of ipsec-tools fixes a crash of racoon in ISAKMP's de-fragmentation code due to a NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2009-1574 Additionally multiple memory leaks were fixed that allowed to execute a remote denial of service attack. CVE-2009-1632 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

SuSE9 Security Update : ruby (YOU Patch Number 11442)

The ruby package was updated to fix a denial of service problem in its CGI module when parsing multipart MIME messages. CVE-2006-6303 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; i...

SuSE 10 Security Update : compat-curl2 (ZYPP Patch Number 6408)

This update of libcurl2 fixes the 0-character handling in the subject name of a SSL certificate. This bug could be used to execute an undetected man-in-the-middle-attack. CVE-2009-2417 Additionally the arbitrary file access problem was fixed. CVE-2009-0037 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

SuSE 11 Security Update : pidgin (SAT Patch Number 1245)

This update of pidgin fixes a remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability in MSN SLP packet processing code. CORE-2009-0727 %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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libtiff (ZYPP Patch Number 6407)

This update of the tiff package fixes various integer overflows in the tools. CVE-2009-2347 %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 scriptid41553;...

SuSE9 Security Update : w3m (YOU Patch Number 11376)

A format string problem in w3m -dump / -backend mode could be used by a malicious server to crash w3m or execute code. CVE-2006-6772 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...