SuSE9 Security Update : findutils-locate (YOU Patch Number 11653)

The cronjob that deletes old core files can be tricked to delete arbitrary files if DELETEOLDCORE is set to yes in /etc/sysconfig/cron. By default, the variable is set to no. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

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 : 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 : wget (YOU Patch Number 11090)

This update fixes a security bug in wget, where evil servers could send terminal escape codes to the user calling wget. This would only affect interactive sessions. CVE-2004-1488 Additionally a previous '.file' fix was found to be buggy and replaced. This bug could lead to '.directories' not bein...

SuSE9 Security Update : libtiff (YOU Patch Number 12470)

This update of the tiff package fixes various integer overflows in the tools. CVE-2009-2347 %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 scriptid41320;...

SuSE9 Security Update : snort (YOU Patch Number 11055)

This update fixes an evasion attack on URL parsing. The faulty code is in the httpinspect preprocessor. CVE-2006-2769 %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 : xntp, xntp-doc (YOU Patch Number 12338)

This update of ntp improves a check for the return value of openssl's function EVPVerifyFinal. CVE-2009-0021 Additionally a fix non-security for starting ntpd with the option -x was added. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : resmgr (YOU Patch Number 9434)

This update of resmgr improves the stability of determining terminal names. Without this fix it is possible for users to fake terminals, and therefore login types, in the context of the resmgr. This is just a minor issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description o...

SuSE9 Security Update : IBMJava5 JRE and IBMJava5 SDK (YOU Patch Number 12265)

IBM Java 5 was updated to SR8a to fix a security issue : - A vulnerability in the Java Management Extensions JMX agent when local monitoring is enabled, allowed remote attackers to 'perform unauthorized operations'. CVE-2008-3103 This update also includes new timezone data and fixes missing...

SuSE9 Security Update : nagios plugins (YOU Patch Number 11953)

fix possible buffer overflow during HTTP Location header parsing in checkhttp CVE-2007-5198 fix possible buffer overflow during snmpget parsing in checksnmp. CVE-2007-5623 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE9 Security Update : Ghostscript (YOU Patch Number 12375)

Integer overflows and missing upper bounds checks in Ghostscript's ICC library potentially allowed attackers to crash Ghostscript or even cause execution of arbitrary code via specially crafted PS or PDF files. CVE-2009-0583, CVE-2009-0584 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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 : libungif (YOU Patch Number 10556)

This update fixes the following security issues : - specially crafted GIF files could crash applications. CVE-2005-2974 - specially crafted GIF files could overwrite memory which potentially allowed to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2005-3350 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

SuSE9 Security Update : mutt (YOU Patch Number 12505)

This update of mutt improves the handling of the \0 character in SSL certificates. CVE-2009-2408 %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 scriptid41326;...

SuSE9 Security Update : libvorbis (YOU Patch Number 11932)

Specially crafted OGG files could crash libvorbis or make it run into an endless loop. CVE-2007-4029, CVE-2007-4065, CVE-2007-4066 %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 : XFree86-server (YOU Patch Number 12058)

The previous XFree86 security update contained a flaw. Due to this some applications using the shared memory extension did not work properly anymore. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : rsh (YOU Patch Number 12241)

in.rexecd was not using the system wide limits, potentially allowing remote rexec users to exhaust all system resources. %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 : libexif (YOU Patch Number 11555)

A denial of service problem crash was fixed in the EXIF Loader of libexif, which could be used to crash the browser or image viewer when it interprets the EXIF tags in prepared JPEG files. CVE-2007-2645 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

SuSE9 Security Update : bind (YOU Patch Number 12197)

The transaction id and the udp source port used for DNS queries by the bind nameserver were predictable. Attackers could potentially exploit that weakness to manipulate the DNS cache 'DNS cache poisoning', CVE-2008-1447. Additionally the root.hint zone file was updated to contain the new IP numbe...

SuSE9 Security Update : SLES9-SP4: Security update for bind (YOU Patch Number 11717)

CVE-2007-2926, cryptographically weak query ids RT 16915. Applied fix extracted from 9.2.8-P1 version. - version update to 9.3.x because ISC will no longer maintain version 9.2.x %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...