SuSE 10 Security Update : Java (ZYPP Patch Number 3891)

The IBM Java JRE/SDK has been brought to release 1.4.2 SR8, containing several bugfixes, including the following security fixes : - A buffer overflow vulnerability in the JavaTM Runtime Environment may allow an untrusted applet to elevate its privileges. For example, an applet may grant itself...

SuSE 10 Security Update : kdegraphics3 (ZYPP Patch Number 2301)

The KFILE JPEG plugin that is responsible for displaying meta-data of JPEG files was affected by some old common vulnerabilities in EXIF handling. A JPEG file could be prepapred with an EXIF section with endless recursion that would overflow the stack and cause the plugin and so the image browser...

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 : Xorg X11 (ZYPP Patch Number 3083)

Integer overflows in the XC-MISC extension of the X-server could potentially be exploited to execute code with root privileges. CVE-2007-1003 Integer overflows in libx11 could cause crashes. CVE-2007-1667 Integer overflows in the font handling of the X-server could potentially be exploited to...

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 : Mono (ZYPP Patch Number 4453)

This update fixes a buffer overflow in Mono's BigInteger implementation. %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 scriptid29389; scriptversion"1.17";...

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 : bind (ZYPP Patch Number 2268)

The RSA signature problem tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-4339 also affects the DNSSEC implementation in the BIND nameserver. This update fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

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 : 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 : 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 : CUPS (ZYPP Patch Number 3137)

By keeping a partially negotiated SSL connection open an attacker could prevent the cups server from accepting other requests. CVE-2007-0720 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

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 : kdebase3 (ZYPP Patch Number 3407)

A problem with the interaction between the Flash Player and the Konqueror webbrowser was fixed. The problem could lead to keypresses leaking to the applet instead of the browser. CVE-2007-2022 This update of khcindexbuilder also restricts the commands that can be executed with EGID 'man'...

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 : 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 : compat-openssl097g (ZYPP Patch Number 2163)

A buffer overflow condition within the SSLgetsharedciphers function and a DoS condition known as 'parasitic public keys' have been fixed. The later problem allowed attackers to trick the OpenSSL engine to spend an extraordinary amount of time to process public keys. The following CAN numbers have...

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 : 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 : 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...