SuSE9 Security Update : Python (YOU Patch Number 12215)

This update of python fixes several security vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-1679 / CVE-2008-1887, CVE-2008-3143, CVE-2008-3142, CVE-2008-3144, CVE-2008-2315, CVE-2008-2316 Note: for SLE10 a non-security bug in mmap was fixed too. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text descriptio...

SuSE9 Security Update : CUPS (YOU Patch Number 12434)

The following bugs have been fixed : - The 'pdftops' was prone to several integer overflows. CVE-2009-0791 - The cups daemon could crash when receiving IPP requests with multiple unsupported tags. CVE-2009-0949 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plug...

SuSE9 Security Update : gpg (YOU Patch Number 11464)

When printing a text stream with a GPG signature it was possible for an attacker to create a stream with 'unsigned text, signed text' where both unsigned and signed text would be shown without distinction which one was signed and which part wasn't. This is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2007-126...

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 : acpid (YOU Patch Number 9486)

This update removes the possibility for a local DoS attack. %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 scriptid41337; scriptversion"1.8";...

SuSE9 Security Update : gvim and vim (YOU Patch Number 12018)

Vim allows to open content via external programs if the argument contains a 'http:' sub-string. It insecurely invoked external web browsers to fetch the remote content. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : gedit (YOU Patch Number 10253)

Gedit had a format string bug in the filename handling, potentially allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This bug has been fixed. CVE-2005-1686 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : libpng, libpng-devel (YOU Patch Number 12339)

This update of libpng fixes the function pngcheckkeyword that allowed setting arbitrary bytes in the process memory to 0. CVE-2008-5907 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : freetype2, (YOU Patch Number 12188)

This update of freetype2 fixes several potential vulnerabilities reported by iDefense. %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 scriptid41219; scriptversion"1.7"...

SuSE9 Security Update : netpbm (YOU Patch Number 11701)

This update fixes a buffer overflow in the RGBA-palette code. The bug can be abused to trigger a denial-or-service attack by feeding untrusted data to 'pnmtopng -alpha' maybe via a remote service like a CGI, mail user agent, etc. The execution of arbitrary code is theoretically possible but...

SuSE9 Security Update : net-snmp (YOU Patch Number 12204)

This security update of net-snmp fixes a denial of service vulnerability CVE-2008-2292, an authentication bypass CVE-2008-0960 and several memory leaks. In addition net-snmp was patched to allow customization of the agent address set. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE9 Security Update : multipath-tools (YOU Patch Number 12377)

The default permissions on the multipathd socket file were to generous and allowed any user to connect. CVE-2009-0115 This update also contains the following fixes : - multipathd is not started for single paths bnc473841 - Backport maxfds parameter bnc457632 - Rename NetApp prio callout to 'ontap...

SuSE9 Security Update : libgda (YOU Patch Number 10554)

This update fixes the following security problem: libgda contained two format string bugs in logging routines. Those bugs could potentially indirectly lead to arbitrary code execution via applications that link against libgda and supply data to libgda. CVE-2005-2958 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

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 : 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 : perl-DBI (YOU Patch Number 9838)

This update fixes insecure temp. file handling. CVE-2005-0077 %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 scriptid41346; scriptversion"1.9";...