Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.21 (Version 3.0, Release 21). This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer and the SELinux policy.

In distribution since 2001, EnGarde Secure Community was one of the very first security platforms developed entirely from open source, and has been engineered from the ground-up to provide users and organizations with complete, secure Web functionality, DNS, database, e-mail security and even e-commerce.

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David Remahl discovered several integer overflows in the stringobject, unicodeobject, bufferobject, longobject, tupleobject, stropmodule, gcmodule, and mmapmodule modules.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNOME XML library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Drew Yao discovered that missing input sanitising in the xmlBufferResize() function may lead to an infinite loop, resulting in denial of service.

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Fixes a couple of security issues when overflowing text data size of buffer size.

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Security fixes from upstream 0.94 and 0.94.1: CVE-2008-3912 (#461461): Multiple out-of-memory NULL pointer dereferences CVE-2008-3913 (#461461): Fix memory leak in the error code path in freshclam CVE-2008-3914 (#461461): File descriptor leak on the error code path CVE-2008-5050 (#470783): get_unicode_name() off-by-one buffer overflow

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Security fixes from upstream 0.94 and 0.94.1: CVE-2008-1389 (#461461): Invalid memory access in the CHM unpacker CVE-2008-3912 (#461461): Multiple out-of-memory NULL pointer dereferences CVE-2008-3913 (#461461): Fix memory leak in the error code path in freshclam CVE-2008-3914 (#461461): Multiple file descriptor leaks on the error code path CVE-2008-5050 (#470783): get_unicode_name() off-by-one buffer overflow

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PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer overflows which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel: The snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info function in sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c in the sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27-rc2 does not verify that the device number is within the range defined by max_synthdev before returning certain data to the caller, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2008-3272)

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The ACL plugin in dovecot prior to version 1.1.4 treated negative access rights as though they were positive access rights, which allowed attackers to bypass intended access restrictions (CVE-2008-4577).

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Drew Yaro of the Apple Product Security Team found two flaws in libxml2. The first is a denial of service flaw in libxml2's XML parser. If an application linked against libxml2 were to process certain malformed XML content, it cause the application to enter an infinite loop (CVE-2008-4225).

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Security vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.x, version 3.0.4 (CVE-2008-0017, CVE-2008-5014, CVE-2008-5015, CVE-2008-5016, CVE-2008-5017, CVE-2008-5018, CVE-2008-5019, CVE-2008-5021, CVE-2008-5022, CVE-2008-5023, CVE-2008-5024). This update provides the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.x to correct these issues.

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Martin von Gagern found a flow in how GnuTLS versions 1.2.4 up until 2.6.1 verified certificate chains provided by a server. A malicious server could use this flaw to spoof its identity by tricking client applications that used the GnuTLS library to trust invalid certificates (CVE-2008-4989).

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An incorrect memory deallocation was causing a crash when the GNOME display manager was exiting. This package update fixes this issue and includes additional bug fixes and translation updates.

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An off-by-one error was found in ClamAV versions prior to 0.94.1 that could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file (CVE-2008-5050). Other bugs have also been corrected in 0.94.1 which is being provided with this update.

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Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security issues 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.

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Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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Updated libxml2 packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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New libxml2 packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues including a denial or service or the possible execution of arbitrary code if untrusted XML is processed. More details about the issues may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

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New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details may be found on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox20.html Or, for Slackware -current (using Firefox 3.0.x): http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html

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New net-snmp packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a denial of service 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-2008-4309

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New gnutls packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to correctly fix the certificate chain verification issue that the upgrade to gnutls-2.6.1 attempted to fix. Without this upgrade, processing a certificate chain containing only one self-signed certificate may cause GnuTLS linked programs to crash.

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New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details may be found on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html

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It was discovered that the hpssd tool of hplip did not validate privileges in the alert-mailing function. A local attacker could exploit this to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the account of the hplip user. This update alters hplip behaviour by preventing users from setting alerts and by moving alert configuration to a root-controlled /etc/hp/alerts.conf file. (CVE-2008-2940) It was discovered that the hpssd tool of hplip did not correctly handle certain commands. A local attacker could use a specially crafted packet to crash hpssd, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2941)

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It was discovered that MySQL could be made to overwrite existing table files in the data directory. An authenticated user could use the DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options to possibly bypass privilege checks. This update alters table creation behaviour by disallowing the use of the MySQL data directory in DATA DIRECTORY and INDEX DIRECTORY options. (CVE-2008-2079, CVE-2008-4097 and CVE-2008-4098) It was discovered that MySQL did not handle empty bit-string literals properly. An attacker could exploit this problem and cause the MySQL server to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-3963)

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