[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: e2fsprogs-1.40.2-3.fc7

The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended ext2/ext3 filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown, mke2fs used to initialize a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: e2fsprogs-1.40.2-12.fc8

The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second and third extended ext2/ext3 filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown, mke2fs used to initialize a...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 283-1 (xfsdump)

The remote host is missing an update to xfsdump announced via advisory DSA 283-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb2831.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 283-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: xfce-utils-4.4.2-1.fc8

This package includes utilities for the Xfce Desktop Environment...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: xfce-utils-4.4.2-1.fc7

This package includes utilities for the Xfce Desktop Environment...

Shadow Utils useradd utility sets incorrect file permissions

Overview The Shadow Utilities contain a vulnerability that may result in new user mailboxes having arbitrary permissions. Description The Shadow Utilities provide tools to manage user accounts.When a new mailbox is created using the useradd utility, the open function does not receive the expected...

gtar -- GNU TAR safer_name_suffix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

SecurityFocus reports: GNUs tar and cpio utilities are prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because of insecure use of the alloca function. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to crash the affected utilities and possibly to execute code but this has not been confirmed...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kdeutils-3.5.8-2.fc7

Utilities for the K Desktop Environment. Includes: ark tar/gzip archive manager; kcalc scientific calculator; kcharselect character selector; kdepasswd change password; kdessh ssh front end; kdf view disk usage; kedit simple text editor; kfloppy floppy formatting tool; kgpg gpg gui khexedit hex...

IBM AIX multiple utilities vulnerabilities

Security vulnerabilities in bellmail, ftp, lquerypv, lqueryvg, dig, crontab, swcons...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : texinfo (texinfo-2264)

Specially crafted texinfo files could crash texinfo utilities. CVE-2006-4810 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update texinfo-2264. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: util-linux-2.13-0.49.fc6

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: util-linux-2.13-0.54.1.fc7

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program...

HP-UX Security Patch : PHNE_31821

NTP timeservices upgrade plus utilities %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26524; scriptversion"1.8"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

HP-UX Security Patch : PHNE_31822

NTP timeservices upgrade plus utilities %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26525; scriptversion"1.8"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

Solaris 9 (sparc) : 117123-10

SunOS 5.9: wanboot and pkg utilities Patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Oct/31/11 %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...

Xen 3.0.3 - pygrub TOOLSPYGRUBSRCGRUBCONF.PY Local Command Injection

Xen 3.0.3 - pygrub TOOLSPYGRUBSRCGRUBCONF.PY Local Command Injection source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25825/info Xen is prone to a local command-injection vulnerability that can lead to privilege escalation. This issue occurs because the application fails to validate input in the...

IBM AIX utilities multiple security vulnerabilities

Multiple suid root ftp client buffer overflow, dynamic library loading via -R command line argument in pioout, buffer overflow with terminal control sequences in capture...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc7

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package...

[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: wireshark-0.99.6-1.fc6

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package...

security flaw

useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the...