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Linux Advisory Watch: March 9th 2007 Print E-mail
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Source: LinuxSecurity.com Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Linux Advisory Watch This week, advisories were released for gnomemeeting, clamav, php4, kernel, selinux, snort, spamassassin, firefox, STLport, tcpdump, timezone, thunderbird, util-linux, mod_jk, gnupg, seamonkey, imagemagick, nvidia-glx, mod_python, and php. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu.


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   Debian
  Debian: New gnomemeeting packages fix arbitrary code execution
  4th, March, 2007

Updated package.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127288
 
  Debian: New clamav packages fix denial of service
  6th, March, 2007

Updated package.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127331
 
  Debian: New php4 packages fix several vulnerabilities
  7th, March, 2007

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127347
 
   Fedora
  Fedora Core 6 Update: kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6
  2nd, March, 2007

Unspecified vulnerability in the listxattr system call in Linux kernel, when a "bad inode" is present, allows local users to cause a denial of service (data corruption) and possibly gain privileges via unknown vectors.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127272
 
  Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.19-1.2288.2.1.fc5
  2nd, March, 2007

The Linux kernel before 2.6.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) via a crafted NFSACL 2 ACCESS request that triggers a free of an incorrect pointer.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127273
 
  Fedora Core 6 Update: selinux-policy-2.4.6-41.fc6
  2nd, March, 2007

Updates the SELinux policy configuration. This update allows samba to run as domain controller - execute useradd

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127274
 
   Gentoo
  Gentoo: Snort Remote execution of arbitrary code
  1st, March, 2007

The Snort DCE/RPC preprocessor contains a buffer overflow that could result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127261
 
  Gentoo: SpamAssassin Long URI Denial of Service
  1st, March, 2007

SpamAssassin is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127262
 
  Gentoo: ClamAV Denial of Service
  1st, March, 2007

ClamAV contains two vulnerabilities allowing a Denial of Service.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127263
 
  Gentoo: Mozilla Firefox Multiple vulnerabilities
  2nd, March, 2007

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, some of which may allow user-assisted arbitrary remote code execution.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127284
 
  Gentoo: Mozilla Suite Multiple vulnerabilities
  3rd, March, 2007

Several vulnerabilities exist in the Mozilla Suite, which is no longer supported by the Mozilla project.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127285
 
  Gentoo: Snort Remote execution of arbitrary code
  3rd, March, 2007

Updated package.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127286
 
  Gentoo: AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library Integer overflow
  3rd, March, 2007

The AMD64 x86 emulation Qt library makes use of an insecure version of the Qt library, potentially allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127287
 
  Gentoo: STLport Possible remote execution of arbitrary
  6th, March, 2007

Two buffer overflows have been discovered in STLport possibly leading to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127328
 
   Mandriva
  Mandriva: Updated tcpdump packages fix segfault
  1st, March, 2007

Tcpdump would cause a segmentation fault on certain packets when reading back a captured tcpdump file. This update corrects that problem.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127259
 
  Mandriva: Updated timezone packages provide updated DST information
  1st, March, 2007

Updated timezone packages are being provided for older Mandriva Linux systems that do not contain the new Daylight Savings Time information for 2007 for certain time zones. These updated packages contain the new information.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127260
 
  Mandriva: Updated Firefox packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
  2nd, March, 2007

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox program, version 1.5.0.10. This update provides the latest Firefox to correct these issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127283
 
  Mandriva: Updated Thunderbird packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
  6th, March, 2007

A number of security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird program, version 1.5.0.10. This update provides the latest Thunderbird to correct these issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127333
 
  Mandriva: Updated util-linux packages address umount crash issue
  6th, March, 2007

Umount allows local users to trigger a NULL dereference and application crash by invoking the program with a pathname for a USB pen drive that was mounted and then physically removed, which might allow the users to obtain sensitive information, including core file contents. Updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127334
 
   Red Hat
  RedHat: Critical: thunderbird security update
  2nd, March, 2007

Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127280
 
  RedHat: Critical: mod_jk security update
  2nd, March, 2007

Updated the mod_jk packages this fixes a security issue are now available for Red Hat Application Stack v1.1. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127281
 
  RedHat: Important: gnupg security update
  6th, March, 2007

Updated GnuPG packages that fix a security issue are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127309
 
   Slackware
  Slackware: mozilla-firefox
  7th, March, 2007

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127361
 
  Slackware: x11
  7th, March, 2007

New x11 packages are available for Slackware 10.2 and 11.0. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127362
 
  Slackware: seamonkey
  7th, March, 2007

A new seamonkey package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127363
 
  Slackware: imagemagick
  7th, March, 2007

A new imagemagick package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127364
 
  Slackware: mozilla-thunderbird
  7th, March, 2007

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127365
 
  Slackware: gnupg
  7th, March, 2007

New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11.0 to fix security ramifications of incorrect gpg usage.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127366
 
  SuSE: MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SA:2007:019)
  6th, March, 2007

Updated package.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127322
 
   Ubuntu
  Ubuntu: nvidia-glx-config regression
  1st, March, 2007

USN-416-1 fixed various vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately that update caused the 'nvidia-glx-config' script to not work any more. The new version fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127252
 
  Ubuntu: Firefox regression
  2nd, March, 2007

USN-428-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.5. However, changes to library paths caused applications depending on libnss3 to fail to start up. This update fixes the problem.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127266
 
  Ubuntu: mod_python vulnerability
  6th, March, 2007

Miles Egan discovered that mod_python, when used in output filter mode, did not handle output larger than 16384 bytes, and would display freed memory, possibly disclosing private data. Thanks to Jim Garrison of the Software Freedom Law Center for identifying the original bug as a security vulnerability.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127329
 
  Ubuntu: tcpdump vulnerability
  6th, March, 2007

Moritz Jodeit discovered that tcpdump had an overflow in the 802.11 packet parser. Remote attackers could send specially crafted packets, crashing tcpdump, possibly leading to a denial of service.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127330
 
  Ubuntu: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
  6th, March, 2007

The SSLv2 protocol support in the NSS library did not sufficiently check the validity of public keys presented with a SSL certificate. A malicious SSL web site using SSLv2 could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-0008) The SSLv2 protocol support in the NSS library did not sufficiently verify the validity of client master keys presented in an SSL client certificate. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in a server application that uses the NSS library.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127332
 
  Ubuntu: GnuPG vulnerability
  8th, March, 2007

Gerardo Richarte from Core Security Technologies discovered that when gnupg is used without --status-fd, there is no way to distinguish initial unsigned messages from a following signed message.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127368
 
  Ubuntu: PHP regression
  8th, March, 2007

USN-424-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP. However, some upstream changes were not included, which caused errors in the stream filters. This update fixes the problem.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/127369
 

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