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 : pam_mount (YOU Patch Number 12332)

This update fixes the temp-flle handling in the passwdehd script that allowed a symlink attack. CVE-2008-5138 %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 : ruby (YOU Patch Number 11442)

The ruby package was updated to fix a denial of service problem in its CGI module when parsing multipart MIME messages. CVE-2006-6303 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; i...

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 : 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...

SuSE9 Security Update : yast2-backup (YOU Patch Number 12279)

This updated of yast2-backup fixes a sellcode injection vulnerability and improves handling of symlinks for the backup process. CVE-2008-4636 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE9 Security Update : mailman (YOU Patch Number 12224)

This update of mailman fixes a cross-site scripting bug CVE-2008-0564 and a mistake in translation. %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 scriptid41233;...

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 : ethereal (YOU Patch Number 12424)

Version upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.7 to fix various vulnerabilities : - crash while loading a Tektronix .rf5 file. CVE-2009-1269 - crash in Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector. CVE-2009-1268 - LDAP dissector could crash on Windows. CVE-2009-1267 - PROFINET format string bug...

SuSE9 Security Update : libxml2 (YOU Patch Number 12032)

libxml2 contained a DoS condition in xmlCurrentChar's UTF-8 processing. CVE-2007-6284 has been assigned to this problem. %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 : YaST2 (YOU Patch Number 11952)

This update fixes a security bug in yast2-core that allows local attackers to provide malicious YaST2 modules to YaST2 which are subsequently executed with root privileges. To trigger this vulnerability root has to execute yast2 in an untrusted directory i.e. /tmp. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

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 : the webdav apache module (YOU Patch Number 9363)

A vulnerability in the WebDAV module has been fixed. A remote attacker could crash a server process, leading to a Denial of Service scenario. Only installations configured for WebDAV access were affected. See http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/showbug.cgi?id=31183. CVE-2004-0809 has been assigned ...

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 : XFree86 (YOU Patch Number 12170)

This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities reported by iDefense : - RENDER Extension heap buffer overflow. CVE-2008-2360 - RENDER Extension crash. CVE-2008-2361 - RENDER Extension memory corruption . CVE-2008-2362 - MIT-SHM arbitrary memory read. CVE-2008-1379 - RECORD and Security extensions...

SuSE9 Security Update : cups (YOU Patch Number 12099)

This update of cups fixes a denial-of-service bug double-free CVE-2008-0882 and specially crafted IPP packets can make cups crash too. CVE-2008-0596, CVE-2008-0597 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

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 : freeswan (YOU Patch Number 12445)

Two vulnerabilities in the freeswan ASN.1 parser when handling RDNs, UTCTIME and GENERALIZEDTIME strings could lead to remote crashes of the pluto daemon CVE-2009-2185. This has been fixed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

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...