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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : mozilla-nss,mozilla-nss-devel (ZYPP Patch Number 2067)

A security problem in the SSL handling of the NSS libraries was found : If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible to forge a PKCS verify the certificate if they are not checking for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature. This bug is tracked by the Mitre CVE ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 2631)

This update to ClamAV version 0.90 fixes various bugs : - A filedescriptor leak in the handling of CAB files can lead to a denial of service attack against the clamd scanner daemon caused by remote attackers. CVE-2007-0897 - A directory traversal in handling of MIME E-Mail headers could be used b...

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 : Kerberos5 (ZYPP Patch Number 2440)

Bugs in the handling of pointers to uninitializes resp. already freed memory could potentially be abused by attackers to execute code. CVE-2006-6144 / CVE-2006-6143 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libgsf (ZYPP Patch Number 2363)

Specially crafted OLE documents enabled attackers to use a heap buffer overlow for executing code. CVE-2006-4514 %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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : ImageMagick (ZYPP Patch Number 2592)

This update fixes a broken patch for CVE-2006-5456 and minor non-security issues. CVE-2007-0770 %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 scriptid29350;...

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 : libksba (ZYPP Patch Number 1867)

The gpgsm program which uses the libksba library crashed when verifying a signature with certain malformed x.509 certificates. %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 : nagios plugins (ZYPP Patch Number 4624)

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 if !definedfunc"nasllevel" || nasllevel = 70000 && nasllevel = 70200 && nasllevel = 80000 && nasllevel 80502 exit0; C Tenable...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ImageMagick (ZYPP Patch Number 3737)

This update of ImageMagick fixes a bug in the patch for the last security update for CVE-2007-1797. %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 scriptid29352;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ruby (ZYPP Patch Number 2224)

A denial of service problem in the CGI multipart parsing of 'ruby' was fixed, which could have allowed remote attackers to affect a denial of service attack against ruby based webservices. CVE-2006-5467 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...