SuSE9 Security Update : unrar (YOU Patch Number 11465)

This update fixes a stack-based buffer overflow in unrar that can be exploited with user-assistance by sending a password-protected archive. CVE-2007-0855 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : Python (YOU Patch Number 12316)

Integer overflows in the python imageop module and in the expandtabs method potentially allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-4864, CVE-2008-5031 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : arts (YOU Patch Number 11075)

The KDE soundserver aRts lacked checks around some setuid calls. This could be used by a local attacker to gain root privileges. CVE-2006-2916 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : YaST2 (YOU Patch Number 11952)

This update fixes a security bug in yast2-core that allows local attackers to provide malicious YaST2 modules to YaST2 which are subsequently executed with root privileges. To trigger this vulnerability root has to execute yast2 in an untrusted directory i.e. /tmp. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

SuSE9 Security Update : gdk-pixbuf (YOU Patch Number 10558)

This update fixes the following security problem: a heap overflow in the XPM reader allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted XPM images. CVE-2005-3186, CVE-2005-2975, CVE-2005-2976 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is...

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 : freetype2 (YOU Patch Number 11554)

This update of freetype2 fixes an integer signedness bug when handling TTF images. This bug can lead to a heap overflow that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-2754 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : Acrobat Reader (YOU Patch Number 12211)

This update of acroread fixes an unknown error in a JavaScript method that can lead to remote code execution. CVE-2008-2641 %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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : sendmail (YOU Patch Number 11200)

Without this update sendmail may crash when finishing a mail due to referencing an already freed variable. CVE-2006-4434 %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 : xscreensaver (YOU Patch Number 11506)

Xscreensaver could crash under certain circumstances causing the screen to unlock. That could happen for example when LDAP is used for authentication and the network connection gets interrupted for a long time. CVE-2007-1859 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text descriptio...

SuSE9 Security Update : openssl (YOU Patch Number 12341)

This update improves the verification of return values. Prior to this udpate it was possible to bypass the certification chain checks of openssl. CVE-2008-5077 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : bzip2 (YOU Patch Number 12119)

Specially crafted files could crash the bzip2-decoder. CVE-2008-1372 %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 scriptid41204; scriptversion"1.8";...