Fedora 17 : glibc-2.15-54.fc17 (2012-11508)

Avoid unbound alloca in vfprintf 841318 Revert patch for BZ696143, it made it impossible to use IPV6 addresses explicitly in getaddrinfo, which in turn broke ssh, apache and other code. 808147 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedor...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1539-1)

An error was discovered in the Linux kernel's network TUN/TAP device implementation. A local user with access to the TUN/TAP interface which is not available to unprivileged users until granted by a root user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potential gain administrative privileges...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : openoffice.org vulnerability (USN-1537-1)

It was discovered that OpenOffice.org incorrectly handled certain encryption tags in Open Document Text .odt files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could cause OpenOffice.org to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : expat vulnerabilities (USN-1527-1)

It was discovered that Expat computed hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably. If a user or application linked against Expat were tricked into opening a crafted XML file, an attacker could cause a denial of service by consuming excessive CPU resources...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : calligra vulnerability (USN-1525-1)

It was discovered that Calligra incorrectly handled certain malformed MS Word documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted MS Word file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. Note tha...

Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 : koffice vulnerability (USN-1526-1)

It was discovered that KOffice incorrectly handled certain malformed MS Word documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted MS Word file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : webkit vulnerabilities (USN-1524-1)

A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKit browser and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173, nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates, nvidia-graphics-drivers-updates vulnerability (USN-1523-1)

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers could be reconfigured to gain access to arbitrary system memory. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Fedora 17 : maniadrive-1.2-43.fc17 / php-5.4.5-1.fc17 (2012-10936)

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.5. This release fixes over 30 bugs and includes a fix for a security related overflow issue in the stream implementation CVE-2012-2688. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.4.5. Full changelog:...

Fedora 16 : maniadrive-1.2-32.fc16.7 / php-5.3.15-1.fc16 / php-eaccelerator-0.9.6.1-9.fc16.7 (2012-10908)

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.15. This release fixes over 30 bugs and includes a fix for a security related overflow issue in the stream implementation CVE-2012-2688. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.15. Full changelog:...

Fedora 17 : moodle-2.2.4-1.fc17 (2012-11039)

Latest upstreams to address security issues. CVE-2012-3387 CVE-2012-3388 CVE-2012-3389 CVE-2012-3390 CVE-2012-3391 CVE-2012-3392 CVE-2012-3393 CVE-2012-3394 CVE-2012-3395 CVE-2012-3396 CVE-2012-3397 CVE-2012-3398 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nfs-utils-lib on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Tenable Network Security discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the RPC library used by nfs-utils-lib. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can access an application linked against nfs-utils-lib could trigger this flaw and cause the application to crash. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 i...

Fedora 16 : puppet-2.6.17-2.fc16 (2012-10897)

This is an upstream security release. It addresses a number of issues found in puppet-2.6.x. The Red Hat security team has rated this update as having low security impact. Refer to the upstream release notes and bugzilla entries for further details...

Fedora 16 : bacula-5.0.3-31.fc16 (2012-10929)

Removed examples. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Fedora 17 : cifs-utils-5.5-2.fc17 (2012-10421)

This update enables some extra security features in the executables specifically, PIE and RELRO support. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much ...

Fedora 17 : asterisk-10.5.2-1.fc17 (2012-10324)

The Asterisk Development Team has announced security releases for Certified Asterisk 1.8.11 and Asterisk 1.8 and 10. The available security releases are released as versions 1.8.11-cert4, 1.8.13.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.2-digiumphones. These releases are available for immediate download at...

StudioLine Photo Basic Detection

The remote host has StudioLine Photo Basic installed. StudioLine Photo Basic is an image editing software. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid60021; scriptversion"1.7"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2023/02/06";...

Mac OS X Admin Group User List

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus was able to extract the member list of the 'Admin' and 'Wheel' groups. Members of these groups have administrative access to the remote system. TRUSTED...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1507-1)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine virtual cpu setup. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leading to a denial of service. CVE-2012-1601 An error was found in the Linux kernel's IPv6 netfilter when connection tracking is enabled. A...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : icedtea-web, openjdk-6 vulnerabilities (USN-1505-1)

It was discovered that multiple flaws existed in the CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture implementation in OpenJDK. An attacker could create a Java application or applet that used these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions or modify immutable object data. CVE-2012-1711,...