SuSE 10 Security Update : Novell GroupWise client (ZYPP Patch Number 4494)

This update fixes a security vulnerability in the GroupWise system that allows a malicious user to intercept authentication credentials through a 'man in the middle' attack. CVE-2007-5195 / CVE-2007-5196 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 2325)

The sPLT chunk handling in libpng was incorrect and a handcrafted PNG file could be use to cause an out-of-bounds read, effectively crashing the PNG viewer or webbrowser. CVE-2006-5793 Additionally a 2 byte stackoverflow was fixed which we do not believe to be exploitable. It will cause an abort ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : flash-player (ZYPP Patch Number 2065)

Multiple input validation errors have been identified in Flash Player that could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities could be accessed through content delivered from a remote location via the user's web browser, email client, or other applications that include...

SuSE 10 Security Update : OpenSSL (ZYPP Patch Number 2175)

A previous openssl update CVE-2006-2940 introduced another bug that can lead to a crash by providing a large prime number. An uninitialized pointer is freed during error handling. This bug allows remote attackers to crash services that use openssl. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

SuSE 10 Security Update : jasper (ZYPP Patch Number 3139)

This update fixes two problems in libjasper that occured while parsing image files. Both bugs lead to memory corruption. %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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : mutt (ZYPP Patch Number 3752)

This update of mutt fixes a vulnerability in the APOP implementation that allows an active attacker to guess three bytes of the password. CVE-2007-1558 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : bind,bind-devel,bind-utils (ZYPP Patch Number 3976)

The bind nameserver generated predicatable DNS query IDs. Remote attackers could use that to perform DNS poisoning attacks. CVE-2007-2926 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : festival (ZYPP Patch Number 4378)

The festival daemon runs as root. The default config doesn't have a password set. A local attacker could therefore connect to the daemon to have commands executed as root. CVE-2007-4074 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : openldap2-client (ZYPP Patch Number 2291)

OpenLDAP libldap's strval2strlen function contained a bug when processing the authcid string of certain Bind Requests, which could allow attackers to cause an affected application especially the OpenLDAP Server to crash. CVE-2006-5779 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libwmf (ZYPP Patch Number 1833)

A heap overflow could be triggered by specially crafted WMF Windows Meta Files in the libwmf library. This problem could be exploited to execute code, by a remote attacker providing a file with embedded WMF data to an application understanding this like OpenOfficeorg, abiword, gimp. This issue is...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ZYPP Patch Number 1946)

An attacker could bypass the 'safe level' checks. CVE-2006-3694 %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 scriptid29570; scriptversion"1.12";...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gv (ZYPP Patch Number 2339)

The previous 'gv' update to fix a stack overflow did not completely fix the problem spotted. An attacker could still cause the handling to use up all system memory, or open windows much wider than the X display and crash. Code execution however was not possible. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

SuSE 10 Security Update : PHP5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3290)

This Update fixes numerous vulnerabilities in PHP. Most of them were made public during the 'Month of PHP Bugs'. The vulnerabilities potentially lead to crashes, information leaks or even execution of malicious code. CVE-2007-1380 / CVE-2007-0988 / CVE-2007-1375 / CVE-2007-1521 / CVE-2007-1376 /...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 2243)

The virus scan engine ClamAV was update to version 0.88.6. Following issues are fixed by this update : - freshclam: apply timeout patch from Everton da Silva Marques new options: ConnectTimeout and ReceiveTimeout - clamd: change stack size at the right place closes clamav bug103 -...

SuSE 10 Security Update : YaST2 (ZYPP Patch Number 4623)

This update fixes a security bug in yast2-core that allowed local attackers to provide malicious yast2 modules to yast2 that are executed with root privileges. To trigger this vulnerability root has to execute yast2 in an untrusted directory i.e. /tmp. Thanks to Stefan Nordhausen for reporting th...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xine (ZYPP Patch Number 2505)

This update fixes several format string bugs that can be exploited remotely with user-assistance to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-0017 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : apache2 (ZYPP Patch Number 4669)

Several bugs were fixed in the Apache2 webserver : These include the following security issues : - modstatus: Fix a possible XSS attack against a site with a public server-status page and ExtendedStatus enabled, for browsers which perform charset 'detection'. CVE-2006-5752 - modcache: Prevent a...

SuSE 10 Security Update : evolution-data-server (ZYPP Patch Number 3826)

A malicious IMAP server could execute code within evolution by sending a malformed response to a SEQUENCE command. CVE-2007-3257 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

SuSE 10 Security Update : kdelibs3,kdelibs3-devel,CVE-2007-1564 (ZYPP Patch Number 3988)

A bug in konqueror allowed attackers to abuse the FTP passive mode for portscans. CVE-2007-1564 %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 scriptid29483;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libvorbis (ZYPP Patch Number 4584)

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...