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Linux Advisory Watch: May 2nd, 2008 Print E-mail
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Source: Linux Security.com Editors - Posted by Ryan W. Maple   
Linux Advisory Watch This week security advisories were issued for JRockit, KDE, SILC, dbmail, gstreamer-plugins-good, iceape, java-1.4.2-bea, java-1.5.0-bea, java-1.6.0-bea, kronolith2, ldm, libpng, perl, phpgedview, phpmyadmin, speex, thunderbird, tomcat, vorbis-tools, wireshark, wml, wordpress, and xulrunner. The distributors included Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, and Slackware.

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In each issue you can find information concerning typical use of Linux: safety, databases, multimedia, scientific tools, entertainment, programming, e-mail, news and desktop environments.


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Thank you for reading the LinuxSecurity.com weekly security newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's most relevant Linux security headline.


  EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.19 Now Available! (Apr 15)
 

Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.19 (Version 3.0, Release 19). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136174

  Debian: New asterisk packages fix denial of service (Apr 30)
 

Joel R. Voss discovered that the IAX2 module of Asterisk, a free software PBX and telephony toolkit performs insufficient validation of IAX2 protocol messages, which may lead to denial of service.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136679
  Debian: New iceape packages fix arbitrary code execution (Apr 28)
 

It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine of Iceape, an unbranded version of the Seamonkey internet suite could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136539
  Debian: New ldm packages fix information disclosure (Apr 28)
 

Christian Herzog discovered that within the Linux Terminal Server Project, it was possible to connect to X on any LTSP client from any host on the network, making client windows and keystrokes visible to that host.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136538
  Debian: New kronolith2 packages fix cross site scripting (Apr 28)
 

"The-0utl4w" discovered that the Kronolith, calendar component for the Horde Framework, didn't properly sanitise URL input, leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the add event screen.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136535
  Debian: New perl packages fix denial of service (Apr 27)
 

It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing Unicode characters. This also happens if the offending characters are contained in a variable reference protected by the \Q...\E quoting construct. When encountering this condition, the Perl interpreter typically crashes, but arbitrary code execution cannot be ruled out.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136530
  Debian: New phpgedview packages fix cross site scripting (Apr 27)
 

It was discovered that phpGedView, an application to provide online access to genealogical data, performed insufficient input sanitising on some parameters, making it vulnerable to cross site scripting.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136529
  Debian: New wml packages fix denial of service (Apr 27)
 

Frank Lichtenheld and Nico Golde discovered that WML, an off-line HTML generation toolkit, creates insecure temporary files in the eperl and ipp backends and in the wmg.cgi script, which could lead to local denial of service by overwriting files.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136528
  Debian: New xulrunner packages fix arbitrary code execution (Apr 24)
 

It was discovered that crashes in the Javascript engine of xulrunner, the Gecko engine library, could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136520
  Debian: New iceape packages fix regression (Apr 24)
 

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of the Seamonkey Internet Suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136519
  Debian: New phpmyadmin packages fix several vulnerabilities (Apr 24)
 

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, an application to administrate MySQL over the WWW. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136518
  Debian: New perl packages fix denial of service (Apr 24)
 

It has been discovered that the Perl interpreter may encounter a buffer overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions containing Unicode characters. This also happens if the offending characters are contained in a variable reference protected by the \Q...\E quoting construct. When encountering this condition, the Perl interpreter typically crashes, but arbitrary code execution cannot be ruled out.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136517

  Fedora 8 Update: dbmail-2.2.9-1.fc8 (Apr 29)
 

Fix possible authentication bypass in authldap authentication module when dbmail is used with LDAP servers allowing anonymous logins - CVE-2007-6714 (#443019).

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136590
  Fedora 7 Update: wordpress-2.5.1-1.fc7 (Apr 29)
 

This updates contains security fixes: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136565

  Gentoo: KDE start_kdeinit Multiple vulnerabilities (Apr 29)
 

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Multiple vulnerabilities in start_kdeinit could possibly allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136541
  Gentoo: JRockit Multiple vulnerabilities (Apr 24)
 

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in BEA JRockit.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136516
  Gentoo: SILC Multiple vulnerabilities (Apr 24)
 

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in SILC Client, Server, and Toolkit, allowing for Denial of Service and execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136515

  Mandriva: Updated speex packages fix vulnerabilities (Apr 29)
 

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library (CVE-2008-1686). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136670
  Mandriva: Updated gstreamer-plugins-good packages fix (Apr 29)
 

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library (CVE-2008-1686). The speex plugin in the gstreamer-plugins-good package is similarly affected by this issue. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136669
  Mandriva: Updated vorbis-tools packages fix vulnerabilities (Apr 29)
 

A vulnerability in the Speex library was found where it did not properly validate input values read from the Speex files headers. An attacker could create a malicious Speex file that would crash an application or potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the application calling the Speex library (CVE-2008-1686). The ogg123 application in vorbis-tools is similarly affected by this issue. The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136668
  Mandriva: Updated wireshark packages fix denial of service (Apr 24)
 

A few vulnerabilities were found in Wireshark, that could cause it to crash or hang under certain conditions. This update provides Wireshark 1.0.0, which is not vulnerable to the issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136521

  RedHat: Moderate: thunderbird security update (Apr 30)
 

Updated thunderbird packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136678
  RedHat: Moderate: tomcat security update (Apr 28)
 

Updated tomcat packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Developer Suite 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136531
  RedHat: Moderate: java-1.4.2-bea security update (Apr 28)
 

Updated java-1.4.2-bea packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Extras, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136532
  RedHat: Moderate: java-1.5.0-bea security update (Apr 28)
 

Updated java-1.5.0-bea packages that correct several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and 5 Supplementary. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136533
  RedHat: Moderate: java-1.6.0-bea security update (Apr 28)
 

Updated java-1.6.0-bea packages that correct several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136534

  Slackware: libpng (Apr 29)
 

New libpng packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1382 Additional information can be found in the libpng source, or in this file on the libpng FTP site: ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.27-README.txt

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/136540

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