USN-425-1: slocate vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in the permission checking code of slocate. When reporting matching files, locate would not correctly respect the parent directory's "read" bits. This could result in filenames being displayed when the file owner had expected them to remain hidden from other system users...

USN-82-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAN-2004-0176: Michael Kerrisk noticed an insufficient permission checking in the shmctl function. Any process was permitted to lock/unlock any System V shared memory segment that fell within the the RLIMITMEMLOCK limit that is the maximum size of shared memory that unprivileged users can acquire...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: postgresql security update

Updated postresql packages that correct various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. A flaw in the LOAD command in PostgreSQL was discovered. A local user could use...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-postgresql security update

Updated PostgreSQL packages to fix various security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBMS. A flaw in the LOAD command in PostgreSQL was discovered. A local user could use this flaw to load arbitrary shar...