SuSE9 Security Update : libpng (YOU Patch Number 12444)

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';...

SuSE9 Security Update : SLES9-SP4: Security update for lprng (YOU Patch Number 11603)

There is a small memory leak in lpd which lets its memory usage grow a bit for each print job until the print system becomes unusable. - Using lprng with a printcap provided via NIS/YP produced following error: 'Inittempfile: bad tempdir '/var/spool/lpd/%P''. This was caused by the function...

SuSE9 Security Update : km_antivir (YOU Patch Number 11354)

This patch contains the sources of the Dazuko kernel module upgrade to version 2.3.2. Several memory leaks and stability issues have been fixed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : permissions (YOU Patch Number 10815)

It is technically impossible to change permissions files in of world writeable directories that don't have the sticky bit set in a secure way. This update therefore removes /var/lib/xmcd/discog from /etc/permissions. Furthermore permissions handling of files below /var/games is removed. To be abl...

SuSE9 Security Update : libtiff (YOU Patch Number 12229)

A buffer underflow CVE-2008-2327 has been fixed in libtiff. %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 scriptid41236; scriptversion"1.8";...

SuSE9 Security Update : libpng (YOU Patch Number 11956)

Specially crafted PNG files could crash applications while attempting to process the file by exploiting out-of-bounds read operations. This can be abused for local and remote denial of service attacks. The issue has been tracked by CVE-2007-5269. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

SuSE9 Security Update : curl (YOU Patch Number 12356)

Arbitrary file access via HTTP-redirect has been fixed in curl. CVE-2009-0037 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...

SuSE9 Security Update : KDE3 FlashPlayer support (YOU Patch Number 12056)

This update is necessary to support the new FlashPlayer version, which required XEmbed support. %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 scriptid41189;...

SuSE9 Security Update : tcpdump (YOU Patch Number 11696)

A buffer overflow has been found in tcpdump which can be triggered while displaying BGP packets. This could be exploited by an attacker to execute malicious code under the privileges of the user running tcpdump by presenting specially prepared BGP packets to tcpdump. This issue is tracked by...

SuSE9 Security Update : OpenSSH (YOU Patch Number 12122)

A flaw in the X forwarding code of openssh allowed malicious users to steal the X access credentials of other users. CVE-2008-1483 %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 : bzip2 (YOU Patch Number 10057)

bzip2 could crash or run into an endless loop when decompressing certain specially crafted archives. This problem has been fixed. CVE-2005-1260 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml2 (YOU Patch Number 12350)

A previous security fix for libxml2 caused problems when processing large xml files. The patch has been reworked so processing large files works again. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : nfs-utils (YOU Patch Number 12274)

This update of nfs-utils fixes the handling of the tcp wrapper ACLs. CVE-2008-4552 %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 scriptid41250; scriptversion"1.8";...

SuSE9 Security Update : XFree86-server (YOU Patch Number 12058)

The previous XFree86 security update contained a flaw. Due to this some applications using the shared memory extension did not work properly anymore. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : DHCP (YOU Patch Number 12347)

This update contains a backported patch from dhcp-3.0.7 to fix a buffer overflow which could lead to a denial-of-service condition in cases when the dhcp server is configured to send many DHCP options to clients. CVE-2007-0062 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE9 Security Update : libksba (YOU Patch Number 11222)

The gpgsm program, which uses the libksba library, crashes when verifying a signature with certain malformed X.509 certificates. %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 : bind (YOU Patch Number 12197)

The transaction id and the udp source port used for DNS queries by the bind nameserver were predictable. Attackers could potentially exploit that weakness to manipulate the DNS cache 'DNS cache poisoning', CVE-2008-1447. Additionally the root.hint zone file was updated to contain the new IP numbe...

SuSE9 Security Update : id3lib (YOU Patch Number 11786)

This update fixes a bug that allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files. CVE-2007-4460 %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 scriptid41150;...

SuSE9 Security Update : rsh (YOU Patch Number 12241)

in.rexecd was not using the system wide limits, potentially allowing remote rexec users to exhaust all system resources. %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...

SuSE9 Security Update : ruby (YOU Patch Number 12452)

This update for ruby fixes the following security issues : - Improve return value checks for OpenSSL function OCSPbasicverify to refuse usage of revoked certificates. CVE-2009-0642 - Increase entropy of DNS identifiers to avoid spoofing attacks. CVE-2008-3905 - Fix denial of service DoS...