RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:0459)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and various bugs 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. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

Slackware 11.0 / 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / current : ruby (SSA:2009-120-01)

New ruby packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix a problem with REXML and other security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory...

RHEL 4 : gpdf (RHSA-2009:0458)

An updated gpdf package that fixes multiple security issues is 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. GPdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Multiple integer overflow fla...

mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix security issues. The updated packages may also be used with Slackware 11.0 or newer. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla website:...

Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-3753 (cups)

The remote host is missing an update to cups announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-3753. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Slackware 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / current : cups (SSA:2009-116-01)

New cups packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2009-116-01. The text itself is copyrigh...

Fedora 10 : seamonkey-1.1.14-1.fc10 (2008-11490)

Update to new upstream release 1.1.14 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.htmlseamonkey1.1.14 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has...

CentOS 4 : kdegraphics (CESA-2007:1024)

Updated kdegraphics packages that fix several 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. The kdegraphics packages contain applications for the K Desktop Environment. This...

RHEL 4 : cups (RHSA-2007:1022)

Updated cups packages that fix several 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. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIXR operatin...

Fedora 10 : evolution-data-server-2.24.5-4.fc10 (2009-2784)

This update fixes two security issues: Evolution Data Server did not properly check the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions S/MIME signatures used for public key encryption and signing of e-mail messages. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof a signature by modifying the text of the...

CentOS 4 : cups (CESA-2007:1022)

Updated cups packages that fix several 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. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIXR operatin...

CentOS 3 : xpdf (CESA-2007:1030)

Updated xpdf packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Xpdf is an X Window System-based viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Alin Rad P...

Fedora 10 : Miro-1.2.7-3.fc10 / blam-1.8.5-5.fc10 / devhelp-0.22-2.fc10 / epiphany-2.24.1-3.fc10 / etc (2008-11511)

Update to the new upstream Firefox 3.0.5 / XULRunner 1.9.0.5 fixing multiple security issues: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known- vulnerabilities/firefox30.htmlfirefox3.0.5 This update also contains new builds of all applications depending on Gecko libraries, built against new version. Note:...

Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor?

Will there be one major catastrophe, or just smaller disasters? Panelists discuss what security issues we should be watching out for, where the threat might come from, and the difficulties in predicting the unpredictable. Via ZDNet...

RHEL 4 / 5 : firefox (RHSA-2009:0436)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:0436 advisory. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were...

Slackware 10.2 / 11.0 / 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / current : udev (SSA:2009-111-01)

New udev packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. The udev packages in Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current contained a local root hole vulnerability: https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2009-1185 The udev packages in Slackwar...

RHEL 3 / 4 : xpdf (RHSA-2009:0430)

An updated xpdf package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Xpdf is an X Window System based viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files...

USN-759-1: poppler vulnerabilities

Will Dormann, Alin Rad Pop, Braden Thomas, and Drew Yao discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues in its JBIG2 decoder. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privilege...

CentOS 3 / 4 : ghostscript (CESA-2009:0420)

Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript interpreter, a se...

seamonkey

New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues. More details about the issues may be found on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2...