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RedHat: Important: libtiff security update  28 August 2008 
Updated libtiff packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.Multiple uses of uninitialized values were discovered in libtiff's Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm decoder. An attacker could create a carefully crafted LZW-encoded TIFF file that would cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
 
RedHat: Important: openoffice.org security update  27 August 2008 
Updated openoffice.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. A numeric truncation error was found in the OpenOffice.org memory allocator. If a carefully crafted file was opened by a victim, an attacker could use this flaw to crash OpenOffice.org or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
 
RedHat: Important: tomcat security update  27 August 2008 
Updated tomcat packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in the HttpServletResponse.sendError() method. A remote attacker could inject arbitrary web script or HTML via forged HTTP headers. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
 
RedHat: Important: ipsec-tools security update  26 August 2008 
An updated ipsec-tools package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. Two denial of service flaws were found in the ipsec-tools racoon daemon. It was possible for a remote attacker to cause the racoon daemon to consume all available memory. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
 
RedHat: Important: kernel security and bug fix update  26 August 2008 
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.0. The possibility of a timeout value overflow was found in the Linux kernel high-resolution timers functionality, hrtimer. This could allow a local unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (kernel panic). This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
 
RedHat: Critical: openssh security update  22 August 2008 
These packages also fix a low severity flaw in the way ssh handles X11 cookies when creating X11 forwarding connections. When ssh was unable to create untrusted cookie, ssh used a trusted cookie instead, possibly allowing the administrative user of a untrusted remote server, or untrusted application run on the remote server, to gain unintended access to a users local X server
 
RedHat: Moderate: libxml2 security update  21 August 2008 
Updated libxml2 packages that fix a security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
 
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