SuSE 10 Security Update : Qt (ZYPP Patch Number 3047)

qt wongly accepts overly long UTF-8 sequences due to a bug in the UTF-8 decoder. This may lead to security problems unter certain circumstances. The bug for example allows for script tag injection in konqueror. CVE-2007-0242 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text descriptio...

SuSE 10 Security Update : krb5-apps-servers and krb5-apps-clients (ZYPP Patch Number 1938)

Various return checks of setuid and seteuid calls have been fixed in kerberos client and server applications. If these applications are setuid, it might have been possible for local attackers to gain root access. CVE-2006-3083 We are not affected by the seteuid problems, tracked by CVE-2006-3084...

SuSE 10 Security Update : xorg-x11-server (ZYPP Patch Number 1913)

This security update fixes crashes in the PCF handling, which might be used to crash the Xserver using applications or even to execute code in them. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhcp-server (ZYPP Patch Number 2437)

A bug was fixed were a LDAP server with malicious data providing information to the DHCP server could crash and potentially execute code as the DHCP server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

SuSE 10 Security Update : mysql (ZYPP Patch Number 2073)

This update of mysql fixes several security vulnerabilities. CVE-2006-4031 / CVE-2006-4226 / CVE-2006-4227 %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 scriptid29524...

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 : MozillaFirefox (ZYPP Patch Number 2154)

The previous MozillaFirefox update was errnously compiled with 'debug' enabled,which caused slow downs and did an excessive amount of logging. This update disables the debugging compiletime option and should restorethe lost performance. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The tex...

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 : 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 : KDE (ZYPP Patch Number 4433)

Users could log in as root without having to enter the password if auto login was enabled and if kdm was configured to require the root passwort to shutdown the system. CVE-2007-4569 JavaScript code could modify the URL in the address bar to make the currently displayed website appear to come fro...

SuSE 10 Security Update : python (ZYPP Patch Number 3750)

This update fixes an off-by-one error in the PyLocalestrxfrm function which can lead to a memory leak. CVE-2007-2052 %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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : libpng (ZYPP Patch Number 3740)

Applications using libpng can crash if libpng is ask to process a grayscale image with a malformed bad CRC tRNS chunk. CVE-2007-2445 %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 : openldap2 (ZYPP Patch Number 1916)

This fixes a bug in the Access Control Processing that allowed users with 'selfwrite' access to an attribute to modify arbitrary values of that attribute, instead of just allowing them to add/delete their own DN to/from that attribute. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 2258)

This update brings MozillaFirefox to the security update release 1.5.0.8, including the following security fixes. Full details can be found on: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabiliti es.html - Is split into 3 sub-entries, for ongoing stability improvements in the Mozilla...

SuSE 10 Security Update : rsync (ZYPP Patch Number 3997)

An off by one buffer overflow within the fname function has been fixed. CVE-2007-4091 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...