Linux Advisory Watch: May 13th, 2011
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| LinuxSecurity.com Linux Advisory Watch |
| May 13th, 2011 Volume 12, Number 20 |
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| Editorial Team: Dave Wreski <dwreski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Benjamin D. Thomas <bthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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each week's vendor security bulletins and pointers on methods to improve
the security posture of your open source system.
Vulnerabilities affect nearly every vendor virtually every week, so be
sure to read through to find the updates your distributor have made
available.
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* Debian: 2236-1: exim4: command injection (May 12)
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It was discovered that Exim, Debian's default mail transfer agent, is
vulnerable to command injection attacks in its DKIM processing code,
leading to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-1407) [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155056
* Debian: 2235-1: icedove: Multiple vulnerabilities (May 10)
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Icedove, an unbranded
version of the Thunderbird mail/news client. CVE-2011-0069
CVE-2011-0070 CVE-2011-0072 CVE-2011-0074 CVE-2011-0075 CVE-2011-0077
CVE-2011-0078 CVE-2011-0080 CVE-2011-0081 [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155042
* Debian: 2234-1: zodb: Multiple vulnerabilities (May 10)
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in python-zodb, a
set of tools for using ZODB, that could lead to arbitrary code
execution in the worst case. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identified the following problems: [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155041
* Debian: 2233-1: postfix: Multiple vulnerabilities (May 10)
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Postfix, a mail transfer
agent. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following problems: [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155038
* Debian: 2232-1: exim4: format string vulnerability (May 6)
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It was discovered that Exim, the default mail transport agent in
Debian, uses DKIM data obtain from DNS directly in a format string,
potentially allowing malicious mail senders to execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2011-1764) [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155024
* Debian: 2231-1: otrs2: cross-site scripting (May 6)
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Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in Open
Ticket Request System (OTRS), a trouble-ticket system.
(CVE-2011-1518) In addition, this security update a failure when
upgrading the package [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155023
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* Mandriva: 2011:084: apr (May 13)
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It was discovered that the apr_fnmatch() function used an
unconstrained recursion when processing patterns with the
'*' wildcard. An attacker could use this flaw to cause an
application using this function, which also accepted untrusted input
as a pattern for matching (such as an httpd server using the
mod_autoindex module), to exhaust all [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155063
* Mandriva: 2011:083: wireshark (May 12)
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This advisory updates wireshark to the latest version (1.2.16),
fixing several security issues: The X.509if dissector in Wireshark
1.2.x before 1.2.16 and 1.4.x before 1.4.5 does not properly
initialize certain global variables, [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155057
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* Red Hat: 2011:0511-01: flash-plugin: Critical Advisory (May 13)
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An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security
issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this
update as having critical [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155058
* Red Hat: 2011:0506-01: rdesktop: Moderate Advisory (May 11)
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An updated rdesktop package that fixes one security issue is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security
Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155049
* Red Hat: 2011:0507-01: apr: Moderate Advisory (May 11)
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Updated apr packages that fix one security issue are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security
Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155050
* Red Hat: 2011:0500-01: kernel-rt: Important Advisory (May 10)
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Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and
various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3. The
Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
[More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155039
* Red Hat: 2011:0498-01: kernel: Important Advisory (May 10)
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Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various
bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as
having [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155040
* Red Hat: 2011:0496-01: xen: Important Advisory (May 9)
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Updated xen packages that fix several security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security
Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155031
* Red Hat: 2011:0490-01: java-1.4.2-ibm: Critical Advisory (May 5)
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Updated java-1.4.2-ibm packages that fix several security issues are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155017
* Red Hat: 2011:0492-01: python: Moderate Advisory (May 5)
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Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security
Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155018
* Red Hat: 2011:0491-01: python: Moderate Advisory (May 5)
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Updated python packages that fix multiple security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security
Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155016
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* SuSE: 2011-024: IBM Java 1.4.2 (May 13)
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IBM Java 1.4.2 was updated to SR 13 Fix Pack 9, fixing bugs and
security issues. More information can be found on the IBM JDK Alerts
page: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155059
* SuSE: 2011-023: postfix (May 11)
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A security problem in the Postfix mail transport agent was fixed that
could potentially be used by remote attackers to exploit a memory
corruption issue in postfix SASL implementation to execute arbitrary
code (CVE-2011-1720). The upstream announcement is here: [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155044
* SuSE: 2011-022: Mozilla (May 5)
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The Mozilla suite of browsers received security updates. Following
updates are included in this update: Mozilla Firefox was updated on
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and 11 to the 3.6.17 security release.
Mozilla Firefox was updated on openSUSE 11.4 to the 4.0.1 security
release. Mozilla Thunderbird was updated on openSUSE to the 3.1.10
security release. [More...]
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155015
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