SuSE 10 Security Update : tar (ZYPP Patch Number 2344)

This security update fixes a directory traversal in tar, where unpacked symlinks could be followed outside of the directory where the tar file is unpacked. CVE-2006-6097 The problematic feature has been made optional and is disabled by default. It can be enabled by a commandline switch...

SuSE 10 Security Update : freetype2 (ZYPP Patch Number 1918)

This security update fixes crashes in the PCF handling of freetype2 which might be used to crash freetype2 using applications or even to execute code in them. This issue is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-3467. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Qt3 (ZYPP Patch Number 3898)

Format string bugs in QTextEdit can be exploited via specially crafted HTML tags to potentially execute code. CVE-2007-3388 %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 : flac (ZYPP Patch Number 4569)

Multiple integer overflows in flac could potentially be exploited by attackers via specially crafted files to execute code in the context of the user opening the file. CVE-2007-4619 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gd (ZYPP Patch Number 3748)

This update fixes a denial-of-service bug in libgd that can occur while processing crafted images. CVE-2007-2756 %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 : openldap2 (ZYPP Patch Number 4679)

This update fixes multiple flaws that could cause slapd to crash. CVE-2007-5707 / CVE-2007-5708 %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 scriptid29536;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Java 1.4.2 (ZYPP Patch Number 2426)

The SUN Java packages have been upgraded to 1.4.2 update 13 to fix various security problems. %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 scriptid29471;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : avahi (ZYPP Patch Number 3845)

Local attackers could send empty TXT data via D-BUS, causing the avahi daemon to exit. CVE-2007-3372 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; i...

SuSE 10 Security Update : tomcat5 (ZYPP Patch Number 2987)

Certain characters of the URL were not properly filtered. This allowed directory reverse traversal attacks to access the web-root of tomcat. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 3902)

This clamav version update to 0.91.1 fixes among other things the long startup time of version 0.90.3 as well as a possibilty to crash clamav with specially crafted rar archives. CVE-2007-3725 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, In...

SuSE 10 Security Update : kdelibs3 (ZYPP Patch Number 3053)

A bug in KHTML could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting XSS attacks. CVE-2007-0537 Another bug 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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : tcpdump (ZYPP Patch Number 4037)

This update fixes a buffer overlow that could be triggered when displaying BGP packets. CVE-2007-3798 %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 scriptid29588;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libexif5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3723)

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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : cups (ZYPP Patch Number 3716)

The previous cups update CVE-2007-0720 was incomplete and could lead to cupsd crashing. %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 scriptid29411;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ktorrent (ZYPP Patch Number 3049)

Ktorrent insufficiently validated the target file name. A malicious Server could therefore overwrite arbitary files of the user CVE-2007-1384 / CVE-2007-1799. Another bug could be exploited to crash Ktorrent. CVE-2007-1385 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gnome-screensave (ZYPP Patch Number 4284)

Memory corruption made the gnome-screensaver process crash when the screen was locked, leaving the desktop accessible to anyone without having to enter a password. This fixes this memory corruption, as confirmed by internal testing. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : gnomemeeting (ZYPP Patch Number 3163)

This update fixes format string problems in gnomemeeting which might be used by remote attackers to crash gnomemeeting and on older distributions potentially execute code. CVE-2007-1007 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : unrar (ZYPP Patch Number 2997)

This update fixes a stack-absed buffer overflow in unrar that can be exploited with user-assistence by sending a password-protected archive. CVE-2007-0855 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : liblcms,liblcms-devel (ZYPP Patch Number 4626)

This update addresses security bugs in liblcms that occurred while parsing ICC profiles in JPEG images. CVE-2007-2741 Remote attackers can exploit this bug to execute arbitrary commands or cause denial-of-service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this...