RHEL 2.1 / 3 : ruby (RHSA-2004:441)

An updated ruby package that fixes insecure file permissions for CGI session files is now available. Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. Andres Salomon reported an insecure file permissions flaw in the CGI session management of Ruby. FileStore created world...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: spamassassin security update

An updated spamassassin package that fixes a denial of service bug when parsing malformed messages is now available. SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email SPAM from incoming email. A denial of service bug has been found in SpamAssassin versions below 2.64. A malicious...

Debian DSA-086-1 : ssh-nonfree - remote root exploit

We have received reports that the 'SSH CRC-32 compensation attack detector vulnerability' is being actively exploited. This is the same integer type error previously corrected for OpenSSH in DSA-027-1. OpenSSH the Debian ssh package was fixed at that time, but ssh-nonfree and ssh-socks were not...

RHEL 3 : httpd (RHSA-2004:463)

Updated httpd packages that include fixes for security issues are now available. The Apache HTTP server is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server. Four issues have been discovered affecting releases of the Apache HTTP 2.0 Server, up to and including version 2.0.50 :...

rkdetect updated

Добавлена поддержка национальных символов в именах служб и вывод полной информации о подозрительной службе. Regards, Sergey V. Gordeychik, MCSE since NT 4.0, MCSA, MCT. Авторизованный курс компании Microsoft по обеспечению безопасности корпоративной сети "Основы сетевой безопасности" в Учебном...

[slackware-security] Qt

New Qt packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, and -current to fix security issues. Bugs in the routines that handle PNG, BMP, GIF, and JPEG images may allow an attacker to cause unauthorized code to execute when a specially crafted image file is processed. These flaws may also cause...

CVE-2003-1047

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2004-0540. Reason: This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2004-0540. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2004-0540 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : gnome-vfs (RHSA-2004:373)

Updated GNOME VFS packages that remove potential extfs-related vulnerabilities are now available. GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It provides a modular architecture and ships with several modules that implement support for file systems, HTTP, FTP, and others. The extfs backends make i...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : mozilla (MDKSA-2004:021)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in Mozilla 1.4 : A malicious website could gain access to a user's authentication credentials to a proxy server. Script.prototype.freeze/thaw could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on your computer. A vulnerability was also discovered in the NSS...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ethereal (MDKSA-2004:024)

A number of serious issues have been discovered in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.2. Stefan Esser discovered thirteen buffer overflows in the NetFlow, IGAP, EIGRP, PGM, IrDA, BGP, ISUP, and TCAP dissectors. Jonathan Heusser discovered that a carefully-crafted RADIUS packet could cause Etherea...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDKSA-2001:053-1)

A format string vulnerability exists in gnupg 1.0.5 and previous versions which is fixed in 1.0.6. This vulnerability can be used to invoke shell commands with privileges of the currently logged-in user. Update : The /usr/bin/gpg executable was installed setuid root and setgid root. While being...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : file (MDKSA-2003:030-1)

A memory allocation problem in file was found by Jeff Johnson, and a stack overflow corruption problem was found by David Endler. These problems have been corrected in file version 3.41 and likely affect all previous version. These problems pose a security threat as they can be used to execute...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : sendmail (MDKSA-2003:042-1)

Michal Zalweski discovered a vulnerability in sendmail versions earlier than 8.12.9 in the address parser, which performs insufficient bounds checking in certain conditions due to a char to int conversion. This vulnerability makes it poissible for an attacker to take control of sendmail and is...

Fedora Core 2 : kernel-2.6.6-1.427 (2004-137)

An updated kernel is available that brings the kernel to the 2.6.7-rc3 base level. This new kernel provides a significant number of bug fixes and improvements for USB, the keyboard/mouse subsystem and the VM. This kernel also fixes the high profile bugs about not working on VIA C3 processors 1206...

Solaris 2.6 (x86) : 106248-49

OpenWindows 3.6x86: Xsun patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/06/03 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/10/24. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !...

Solaris 9 (sparc) : 113475-03

SunOS 5.9: usr/lib/security crypt Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : May/13/04 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !...

Solaris 2.6 (sparc) : 105407-01

SunOS 5.6: /usr/bin/volrmmount patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Oct/22/97 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !...

Solaris 8 (x86) : 110958-02

SunOS 5.8x86: /usr/bin/mailx patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Nov/06/01 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 8 (x86) : 111625-05

SunOS 5.8x86: /usr/sbin/inetd patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Feb/13/04 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !...

RHEL 2.1 : kernel (RHSA-2003:408)

Updated kernel packages that address various security vulnerabilities, fix a number of bugs, and update various drivers are now available. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. The execve system call in Linux 2.4.x records the file descriptor of the executable...