SuSE9 Security Update : findutils-locate (YOU Patch Number 11653)

The cronjob that deletes old core files can be tricked to delete arbitrary files if DELETEOLDCORE is set to yes in /etc/sysconfig/cron. By default, the variable is set to no. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : ViM (YOU Patch Number 12360)

The VI Improved editor vim received bugfixes for some code execution problems. - Arbitrary code execution in vim helper plugins filetype.vim, zipplugin, xpm.vim, gzipvim, and netrw were fixed. CVE-2008-2712 - Arbitrary code execution when pressing K, ctrl- or g depending on the text under the...

SuSE9 Security Update : ClamAV (YOU Patch Number 12318)

Specially crafted jpg files could crash the clamd daemon of clamav. CVE-2008-5314 %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 scriptid41262; scriptversion"1.8";...

SuSE9 Security Update : MySQL (YOU Patch Number 12256)

Due a flaw users could access tables of other users. CVE-2008-4097, CVE-2008-4098 %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 scriptid41243; scriptversion"1.11";...

SuSE9 Security Update : heimdal (YOU Patch Number 12015)

This update fixes a software bug due to calling free3 on an uninitialized pointer. The bug can be triggered remotely, the impact is currently unknown. CVE-2007-5939 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : Security update PHP4 (YOU Patch Number 12226)

This update of PHP4 fixes multiple buffer overflows. See http://www.php.net/archive/2008.phpid2008-08-07-1 %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 scriptid41235...

SuSE9 Security Update : XFree86-Xnest (YOU Patch Number 12043)

This update fixes various Xserver security issues. - File existence disclosure vulnerability. CVE-2007-5958 - XInput Extension Memory Corruption Vulnerability IDEF2888 CVE-2007-6427. - TOG-CUP Extension Memory Corruption Vulnerability IDEF2901 CVE-2007-6428. - EVI Extension Integer Overflow...

SuSE9 Security Update : libpng (YOU Patch Number 12353)

An allocation mistake in libpng's pngread.c has been fixed. CVE-2009-0040 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 description scriptid41279...

SuSE9 Security Update : man (YOU Patch Number 11492)

A heap-based buffer overflow in the 'man' command could potentially be exploited by users to run code as root. CVE-2006-4250 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

SuSE9 Security Update : CUPS (YOU Patch Number 12117)

specially crafted GIF files could cause a buffer overflow in the printer filter for image files. CVE-2008-1373 - specially crafted files could cause a buffer overflow in the HP-GL/2 printer filter. CVE-2008-0053 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this...

SuSE9 Security Update : telnet (YOU Patch Number 10238)

The telnet client protocol can be abused by a malicious server to read the environment of the client site. The information can be used as preparation for further attacks. This bug can also be exploited by using the telnet:// URL on a web-site and letting the web-browser fork a telnet client. This...

SuSE9 Security Update : xscreensaver (YOU Patch Number 12174)

Following security problem is fixed by this patch : - When getpwuid fails due to dropped network on NIS accounts fail instead of silently disabling locking and just blanking. CVE-2008-1683 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : liblcms (YOU Patch Number 12361)

Specially crafted image files could cause an integer overflow in lcms. Attackers could potentially exploit that to crash applications using lcms or even execute arbitrary code. CVE-2009-0723, CVE-2009-0581, CVE-2009-0733 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of...

SuSE9 Security Update : fetchmail (YOU Patch Number 12468)

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 : qt3 (YOU Patch Number 11795)

An off-by-one error in the QUtf8Decoder::toUnicode method has been found which may allow a denial of service attack with specially crafted UTF-8 character sequences that trigger a buffer overflow. CVE-2007-4137 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plug...

SuSE9 Security Update : XFree86 (YOU Patch Number 12344)

XTerm evaluated various ANSI Escape sequences so that command execution was possible if an attacker could pipe raw data to an xterm. CVE-2008-2383 It is usually not recommended to display raw data on an xterm. Support for Matrox G200EV/G200WB cards was added. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

SuSE9 Security Update : gnome-vfs2,gnome-vfs2-doc (YOU Patch Number 10010)

This update fixes the following security problems : - The VFS scripts contained in GNOME are vulnerable to attacks on temporary files as well as command execution via shell meta-characters. These bugs can be exploited by accessing a malformated archive file. CVE-2004-0494 - Insufficient checks wh...

SuSE9 Security Update : libmikmod (YOU Patch Number 12359)

Specially crafted XM files or playing mod files with varying number of channels could crash applications using libmikmod. CVE-2009-0179, CVE-2007-6720 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : XFree86-libs (YOU Patch Number 12040)

This update fixes various Xserver security issues. - File existence disclosure vulnerability. CVE-2007-5958 - XInput Extension Memory Corruption Vulnerability IDEF2888 CVE-2007-6427. - TOG-CUP Extension Memory Corruption Vulnerability IDEF2901 CVE-2007-6428. - EVI Extension Integer Overflow...

SuSE9 Security Update : acroread (YOU Patch Number 11433)

The Adobe Acrobat Reader has been updated to version 7.0.9. For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 this version now includes its own GLIB2, ATK, PANGO and GTK2 libraries, since Acroread 7.0.x requires a minimum level of GTK2 2.4. This update also includes following security fixes : - A memory...