SuSE 10 Security Update : squid (ZYPP Patch Number 2502)

This update fixes a remotely exploitable denial-of-service bug in squid, that can be triggered by using special ftp:// URLs. CVE-2007-0247 The packages are not vulnerable to a bug in external ACLs. CVE-2007-0248 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : gpg2 (ZYPP Patch Number 1834)

It is possible to crash denial of service the GNU Privacy Guard gpg by supplying a specifically crafted message specifying a very large UID, which leads to an out of memory situation or an integer overflow. It is unclear if this problem can be exploited to execute code. This issue is tracked by t...

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 : gzip (ZYPP Patch Number 2085)

This update fixes several security problems that can be exploited to compromise the system in conjunction with other programs while processing malformated archive files. CVE-2006-4334 / CVE-2006-4335 / CVE-2006-4336 / CVE-2006-4337 / CVE-2006-4338 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

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 : 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 : Samba (ZYPP Patch Number 3351)

Specially crafted MS-RPC packets could overwrite heap memory and therfore could potentially be exploited to execute code. CVE-2007-2446 Authenticated users could leverage specially crafted MS-RPC packets to pass arguments unfiltered to /bin/sh. CVE-2007-2447 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Samba (ZYPP Patch Number 3829)

The previous security fix for CVE-2007-2447 missed one character in the shell escape handling. Also fixed were some regressions introduced by the previous update. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Kerberos 5 (ZYPP Patch Number 3046)

A bug in the function krb5klogsyslog leads to a buffer overflow which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-0957 A double-free bug in the GSS-API library could crash kadmind. It's potentially also exploitable to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2007-1216 %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 : 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 : 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 : librpcsecgss (ZYPP Patch Number 4601)

This update fixes a security problem in the librpcsecgss library used by NFSv4 also found in krb5. A invalid packet could underflow and potentially cause memory corruption and code execution. CVE-2007-3999 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 3081)

The version update to 0.90.2 fixes among other things two security problems. CVE-2007-1745 / CVE-2007-1997 %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 scriptid29400...