SuSE 10 Security Update : Ghostscript (ZYPP Patch Number 6066)

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...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 6326)

This update of libpng improves the parsing of 1-bit interlaced images. This bug could be abused to use 'out-of-bounds pixels' to read memory. CVE-2009-2042 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : NetworkManager-gnome (ZYPP Patch Number 6028)

The NetworkManager configuration was too permissive and allowed any user to read secrets CVE-2009-0365 or manipulate the configuration of other users. CVE-2009-0578 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : strongswan (ZYPP Patch Number 6116)

By sending a specially crafted Dead Peer Detection DPD packet remote attackers could crash the pluto IKE daemon. CVE-2009-0790 %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 : Websphere Community Edition (ZYPP Patch Number 6312)

This update of WebSphere fixes the following vulnerabilities : - GERONIMO-3838: close potential denial of service attack - fix Apache Geronimo web administration console directory traversal vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-5518 - fix Apache Geronimo web administration console XSS vulnerabilities...

SuSE 10 Security Update : libtiff (ZYPP Patch Number 6407)

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 scriptid41553;...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhclient (ZYPP Patch Number 6335)

The DHCP client dhclient could be crashed by a malicious DHCP server sending a overlong subnet field. CVE-2009-0692 In some circumstances code execution might be possible, but might be caught by the buffer overflow checking in newer distributions. SLES 10 and 11. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

SuSE 10 Security Update : openswan (ZYPP Patch Number 6328)

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

SuSE 10 Security Update : dbus (ZYPP Patch Number 5969)

The dbus package used a too permissive configuration. Therefore intended access control for some services was not applied. CVE-2008-4311 The new configuration denies access by default. Some dbus services may break due to this setting and need an updated configuration as well. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

SuSE 10 Security Update : PostgreSQL (ZYPP Patch Number 6114)

Remote authenticated users could crash the postgresql server by requesting a conversion with an inappropriate encoding. CVE-2009-0922 %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 : OpenSC (ZYPP Patch Number 6053)

Private data objects on smartcards initialized with OpenSC could be accessed without authentication. CVE-2009-0368 Only blank cards initialized with OpenSC are affected by this problem. Affected cards need to be manually fixed, updating the opensc package alone is not sufficient! Please carefully...

SuSE 10 Security Update : poppler (ZYPP Patch Number 6315)

This update of poppler: fix various security bugs that occur while decoding JBIG2. CVE-2009-0146 / CVE-2009-0147 / CVE-2009-0165 / CVE-2009-0166 / CVE-2009-0799 / CVE-2009-0800 / CVE-2009-1179 / CVE-2009-1180 / CVE-2009-1181 / CVE-2009-1182 / CVE-2009-1183 Further a denial of service bug in...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ethereal (ZYPP Patch Number 6269)

Version upgrade to Wireshark 1.0.7 to fix various vulnerabilities : - crash while loading a Tektronix .rf5 file CVE-2009-1268: crash in Check Point High-Availability Protocol CPHAP dissector CVE-2009-1267: LDAP dissector could crash on Windows CVE-2009-1210: PROFINET format string bug...

SuSE 10 Security Update : postgresql-pl (ZYPP Patch Number 6208)

Due to tight package dependencies postgresql-pl has to be updated to match the recently released postgresql packages. %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 : Mono (ZYPP Patch Number 6353)

The XML signature checker did not impose limits on the minimum length of HMAC signatures in XML documents. Attackers could therefore specify a length of e.g. 1 to make the signature appear valid and therefore effectively bypass verification of XML documents. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Xerces-j2 (ZYPP Patch Number 6449)

The xerces-j2 package was vulnerable to various bugs while parsing XML. CVE-2009-2625 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'; if description...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 6453)

This update fixes a single critical security issues in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP 2 kernel. - A missing check in the MSGPROBE handling can be used to execute privileges to root. CVE-2009-2698 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell...

SuSE 10 Security Update : GnuTLS (ZYPP Patch Number 5851)

gnutls did not properly verify x509 certificate chains. An attacker could exploit that to trick client programs into trusting servers that would normally get rejected. CVE-2008-4989 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : bind (ZYPP Patch Number 6382)

Specially crafted ddns update packets could trigger an exception in bind causing it to exit. The attack works if BIND is master for a zone even if ddns is not configured. CVE-2009-0696 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : IBM Java 1.5.0 (ZYPP Patch Number 5960)

This update brings IBM Java 5 to Service Release 9. It fixes the following security problems : - A security vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE may allow an untrusted applet or application to list the contents of the home directory of the user running the applet or application...