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Debian: New slash packages fix multiple vulnerabilities  01 September 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
It has been discovered that Slash, the Slashdot Like Automated Storytelling Homepage suffers from two vulnerabilities related to insufficient input sanitation, leading to execution of SQL commands (CVE-2008-2231) and cross-site scripting (CVE-2008-2553).
 
Debian: New opensc package fix incomplete check  31 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
This vulnerability affects only smart cards and USB crypto tokens based on Siemens CardOS M4, and within that group only those that were initialised with OpenSC. Users of other smart cards and USB crypto tokens, or cards that have been initialised with some software other than OpenSC, are not affected.
 
Debian: New mt-daapd package fix regression  30 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
In DSA-1597-1, an update was announced for multiple vulnerabilities in the mt-daapd audio server. One of the fixes introduced a regression preventing successful authentication to the administration interface. An updated release is available which corrects this problem. For reference, the original advisory text follows.
 
Debian: New libxml2 packages fix denial of service  26 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
The previous security update of the libxml2 package introduced some problems with other packages, most notably with librsvg. This update corrects these problems whilst still fixing the reported scurity problem.
 
Debian: New tiff packages fix arbitrary code execution  26 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Drew Yao discovered that libTIFF, a library for handling the Tagged Image File Format, is vulnerable to a programming error allowing malformed tiff files to lead to a crash or execution of arbitrary code.
 
Debian: New libxml2 packages fix denial of service  22 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Andreas Solberg discovered that libxml2, the GNOME XML library, could be forced to recursively evaluate entities, until available CPU & memory resources were exhausted.
 
Debian: New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities  21 August 2008 
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Dirk Nehring discovered a vulnerability in the IPsec code that allows remote users to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted ESP packet.
 
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