SuSE9 Security Update : PostgreSQL (YOU Patch Number 11509)

This update fixes two vulnerabilities that affect the backend server and can only be exploited by authenticated users to cause a denial-of-service, or maybe to access other tables/databases without authentication. CVE-2007-0555 CVE-2007-0556 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

SuSE9 Security Update : tar (YOU Patch Number 11723)

This update fixes a directory traversal bug in tar. CVE-2007-4131 %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 scriptid41149; scriptversion"1.7";...

SuSE 11 Security Update : OpenSSL (SAT Patch Number 909)

Three remote DoS vulnerabilities have been fixed in OpenSSL: a DTLS epoch record buffer memory DoS CVE-2009-1377, a DTLS fragment handling memory DoS CVE-2009-1378 and a DTLS fragment read after a free DoS. CVE-2009-1379 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 5235)

This kernel update fixes the following security problems : - tunneled ipv6 packets SIT could trigger a memory leak in the kernel. Remote attackers could exploit that to crash machines. CVE-2008-2136 Additionally the following bugfixes have been included for all platforms : -...

SuSE 11 Security Update : acroread_ja (SAT Patch Number 904)

This update of acroread fixes two vulnerabilities in the JavaScript API that allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with a malformed PDF file. CVE-2009-1492 / CVE-2009-1493 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracte...

SuSE9 Security Update : arc (YOU Patch Number 10496)

This updates fixes two bugs : - Eric Romang discovered that the ARC archive program under Unix creates a temporary file with insecure permissions which may lead to an attacker stealing sensitive information. CVE-2005-2945 - Joey Schulze discovered that the temporary file was created in an insecur...

SuSE 10 Security Update : PostgreSQL (ZYPP Patch Number 6114)

Remote authenticated users could crash the postgresql server by requesting a conversion with an inappropriate encoding. CVE-2009-0922 %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 11 Security Update : libsndfile (SAT Patch Number 637)

Specially crafted CAF files could cause an integer overflow in libsndfile. CVE-2009-0186 %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 is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : ClamAV (SAT Patch Number 1009)

Multiple issues in clamav regarding malformed archives and emails have been fixed. %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 is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : udev (SAT Patch Number 766)

This update fixes a local privilege escalation in udev. - udev did not check the origin of the netlink messages. A local attacker could fake device create events and so gain root privileges. CVE-2009-1185 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

SuSE9 Security Update : ipsec-tools (YOU Patch Number 12438)

This update of ipsec-tools fixes multiple memory leaks were fixed that allowed to execute a remote denial of service attack. CVE-2009-1632 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : openldap2 (YOU Patch Number 11135)

This fixes a bug in the Access Control Processing that allowed users with 'selfwrite' access to an attribute to modify arbitrary values of that attribute, instead of just allowing them to add/delete their own DN to/from that attribute. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 11 Security Update : libtiff3 (SAT Patch Number 1069)

This update of libtiff fixes a buffer underflow in LZWDecodeCompat. CVE-2009-2285 %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 is copyright C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 11 Security Update : clamav, clamav-db, clamav-debuginfo, clamav-debugsource (SAT Patch Number 795)

This clamav version upgrade to 0.95.1 fixes a buffer overflow error in the cliurlcanon function and a denial of service condition occuring while parsing malformed UPack archives. cve ids missing still %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

SuSE 11 Security Update : freetype2 (SAT Patch Number 792)

Freetype was updated to fix some integer overflows that can be exploited remotely in conjunction with programs like a web-browser. CVE-2009-0946 Thanks to Tavis Ormandy who found the bugs. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

SuSE9 Security Update : IBM Java5 JRE and SDK (YOU Patch Number 12461)

The IBM JRE/JDK version 5 was updated to Service Release 10. It fixes a number of bugs and likely also several security issues. As usual IBM does not publish fixed security issues on the release date so a detailed list cannot be given at this time. Please check...

SuSE 10 Security Update : hal (ZYPP Patch Number 6036)

The dbus package used a too permissive configuration. Therefore intended access control for some services was not applied. CVE-2008-4311 The new configuration denies access by default. Some dbus services may break due to this setting and need an updated configuration as well. Additionally a bug i...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml2 (YOU Patch Number 12032)

libxml2 contained a DoS condition in xmlCurrentChar's UTF-8 processing. CVE-2007-6284 has been assigned to this problem. %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 : Java Struts (ZYPP Patch Number 6122)

Insufficient quoting of parameters allowed attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks. %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 scriptid41590;...

SuSE9 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (YOU Patch Number 9368)

Three security vulnerabilities have been found in the loader for XPM images of the GTK library. These issues are : - Potential heap overflow in pixbufcreatefromxpm. CVE-2004-0782 - Potential stack overflow in xpmextractcolor. CVE-2004-0783 - Potential integer overflow in the ICO icon format loade...