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Linux Advisory Watch: April 10th, 2009 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 krb5, horde3, tunapie, openssl, moodle, icu, java, bugzilla, mapserver, moodle, tor, xpdf, eye, ntp, gnumeric, initscripts, libtommath, mdkonline, openssl, evolution, and postgresql. The distributors include Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Red Hat, SuSE, and Ubuntu.

Linux+DVD Magazine Our magazine is read by professional network and database administrators, system programmers, webmasters and all those who believe in the power of Open Source software. The majority of our readers is between 15 and 40 years old. They are interested in current news from the Linux world, upcoming projects etc.

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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Review: Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You - If I ask "How much do you know about Google?" You may not take even a second to respond. But if I may ask "How much does Google know about you"? You may instantly reply "Wait... what!? Do they!?" The book "Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You" by Greg Conti (Computer Science Professor at West Point) is the first book to reveal how Google's vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business – and what you can do to protect yourself.

A Secure Nagios Server - Nagios is a monitoring software designed to let you know about problems on your hosts and networks quickly. You can configure it to be used on any network. Setting up a Nagios server on any Linux distribution is a very quick process however to make it a secure setup it takes some work. This article will not show you how to install Nagios since there are tons of them out there but it will show you in detail ways to improve your Nagios security.

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 3.0.22 Now Available! (Dec 9)
 

Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.22 (Version 3.0, Release 22). 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/145668

  Debian: New krb5 packages fix several vulnerabilities (Apr 8)
 

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5, a system for authenticating users and services on a network.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148533
  Debian: New horde3 packages fix several vulnerabilities (Apr 8)
 

Several vulnerabilities have been found in horde3, the horde web application framework.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148527
  Debian: New tunapie packages fix several vulnerabilities (Apr 7)
 

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tunapie, a GUI frontend to video and radio streams.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148519
  Debian: New openssl packages fix denial of service (Apr 6)
 

It was discovered that insufficient length validations in the ASN.1 handling of the OpenSSL crypto library may lead to denial of service when processing a manipulated certificate.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148498
  Debian: New moodle packages fix file disclosure (Apr 3)
 

Christian J. Eibl discovered that the TeX filter of Moodle, a web-based course management system, doesn't check user input for certain TeX commands which allows an attacker to include and display the content of arbitrary system files.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148491
  Debian: New icu packages fix cross site scripting (Apr 2)
 

It was discovered that icu, the internal components for Unicode, did not properly sanitise invalid encoded data, which could lead to cross- site scripting attacks.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148480

  Fedora 9 Update: krb5-1.6.3-16.fc9 (Apr 7)
 

This update incorporates patches to fix potential read overflow and NULL pointer dereferences in the implementation of the SPNEGO GSSAPI mechanism (CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845), attempts to free an uninitialized pointer during protocol parsing (CVE-2009-0846), and a bug in length validation during protocol parsing (CVE-2009-0847).

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148522
  Fedora 10 Update: krb5-1.6.3-18.fc10 (Apr 7)
 

This update incorporates patches to fix potential read overflow and NULL pointer dereferences in the implementation of the SPNEGO GSSAPI mechanism (CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845), attempts to free an uninitialized pointer during protocol parsing (CVE-2009-0846), and a bug in length validation during protocol parsing (CVE-2009-0847).

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148523
  Fedora 9 Update: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-0.25.b09.fc9 (Apr 7)
 

Fixes remaining LCMS issue, which resolves a TCK failure

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148520
  Fedora 10 Update: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-15.b14.fc10 (Apr 7)
 

Fixes remaining LCMS issue, which resolves a TCK failure

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148521
  Fedora 9 Update: bugzilla-3.2.3-1.fc9 (Apr 7)
 

fix CVE-2009-1213

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148511
  Fedora 10 Update: bugzilla-3.2.3-1.fc10 (Apr 7)
 

fix CVE-2009-1213

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148512
  Fedora 9 Update: mapserver-5.2.2-1.fc9 (Apr 6)
 

The releases contain fixes for issues discovered in an audit of the CGI by a 3rd party (tickets #2939, #2941, #2942, #2943 and #2944).

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148503
  Fedora 10 Update: mapserver-5.2.2-1.fc10 (Apr 6)
 

The releases contain fixes for issues discovered in an audit of the CGI by a 3rd party (tickets #2939, #2941, #2942, #2943 and #2944).

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148502
  Fedora 9 Update: moodle-1.9.4-6.fc9 (Apr 2)
 

CVE-2009-1171: The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+, 1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to include the contents of the file.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148483
  Fedora 10 Update: moodle-1.9.4-6.fc10 (Apr 2)
 

CVE-2009-1171: The TeX filter in Moodle 1.6 before 1.6.9+, 1.7 before 1.7.7+, 1.8 before 1.8.9, and 1.9 before 1.9.5 allows user-assisted attackers to read arbitrary files via an input command in a "$$" sequence, which causes LaTeX to include the contents of the file.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148482

  Gentoo: Tor Multiple vulnerabilities (Apr 8)
 

Multiple vulnerabilities in Tor might allow for heap corruption, Denial of Service, escalation of privileges and information disclosure.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148531
  Gentoo: Avahi Denial of Service (Apr 8)
 

An error in Avahi might lead to a Denial of Service via network and CPU consumption.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148532
  Gentoo: MIT Kerberos 5 Multiple vulnerabilities (Apr 8)
 

Multiple vulnerabilites in MIT Kerberos 5 might allow remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148530
  Gentoo: OpenSSL Denial of Service (Apr 7)
 

An error in OpenSSL might allow for a Denial of Service when printing certificate details.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148507
  Gentoo: Xpdf Untrusted search path (Apr 7)
 

A vulnerability in Xpdf might allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148506
  Gentoo: Eye of GNOME Untrusted search path (Apr 6)
 

An untrusted search path vulnerability in the Eye of GNOME might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148504
  Gentoo: ntp Certificate validation error (Apr 5)
 

An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation in ntp might allow for spoofing attacks.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148497
  Gentoo: WeeChat Denial of Service (Apr 4)
 

A processing error in WeeChat might lead to a Denial of Service.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148496
  Gentoo: Gnumeric Untrusted search path (Apr 3)
 

An untrusted search path vulnerability in Gnumeric might result in the execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148492
  Gentoo: Openfire Multiple vulnerabilities (Apr 2)
 

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Openfire, the worst of which may allow remote execution of arbitrary code.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148485

  Mandriva: [ MDVA-2009:052 ] initscripts (Apr 8)
 

A race condition on getkey process in initscripts shipped with Mandriva CS4 will make the boot stop when entering interactive startup.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148529
  Mandriva: [ MDVA-2009:051 ] perl-Crypt-SSLeay (Apr 7)
 

This update provides updated perl-Crypt-SSLeay, required for mdkonline to work with restricted resources.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148518
  Mandriva: [ MDVA-2009:050 ] libtommath (Apr 7)
 

The tommath library will be needed for future clamav updates.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148509
  Mandriva: [ MDVA-2009:049 ] mdkonline (Apr 6)
 

This update fixes an issue which could cause mdkonline to fail when attempting to setup restricted resources.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148505
  Mandriva: [ MDVSA-2009:086 ] gstreamer-plugins (Apr 3)
 

An array indexing error in the GStreamer's QuickTime media file format decoding plug-in enables attackers to crash the application and potentially execute arbitrary code by using a crafted media file (CVE-2009-0398). This update provides fix for that security issue.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148495
  Mandriva: [ MDVSA-2009:087 ] openssl (Apr 3)
 

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in OpenSSL, which could crash applications using OpenSSL library when parsing malformed certificates (CVE-2009-0590). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148494
  Mandriva: [ MDVA-2009:048 ] evolution (Apr 2)
 

This update prevents unwanted dependency with gpilotd (bug #46302).

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148484
  Mandriva: [ MDVSA-2009:085 ] gstreamer0.10-plugins-base (Apr 2)
 

Integer overflows in gstreamer0.10-plugins-base Base64 encoding and decoding functions (related with glib2.0 issue CVE-2008-4316) may lead attackers to cause denial of service. Altough vector attacks are not known yet (CVE-2009-0586). This update provide the fix for that security issue.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148481

  RedHat: Critical: krb5 security update (Apr 7)
 

Updated krb5 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148516
  RedHat: Moderate: device-mapper-multipath security (Apr 7)
 

Updated device-mapper-multipath 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/148517
  RedHat: Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security update (Apr 7)
 

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

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148513
  RedHat: Important: krb5 security update (Apr 7)
 

Updated krb5 packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148514
  RedHat: Important: krb5 security update (Apr 7)
 

Updated krb5 packages that fix a security issue 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.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148515
  RedHat: Moderate: php security update (Apr 6)
 

Updated php packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148500
  RedHat: Moderate: gstreamer-plugins-base security update (Apr 6)
 

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

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148501
  RedHat: Moderate: php security update (Apr 6)
 

Updated php packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148499

  Slackware: php (Apr 8)
 

New php packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148524
  Slackware: xine-lib (Apr 8)
 

New xine-lib packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148525
  Slackware: openssl (Apr 8)
 

New openssl packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and -current to fix security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148526

  SuSE: krb5 (SUSE-SA:2009:019) (Apr 8)
 

The Kerberos implementation from MIT is vulnerable to four different security issues that range from a remote crash to to possible, but very unlikely, remote code execution.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148528
  SuSE: IBM Java 1.4.2 and 6 (Apr 7)
 

The IBM Java 1.4.2 JDK and JRE were brought to Service Release 13 and the IBM JDK and JRE 6 were brought to Service Release 4.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148508
  SuSE: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:2009:017) (Apr 3)
 

The Linux kernel for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 was updated to fixes various bugs and several security issues.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148489
  SuSE: Sun Java (SUSE-SA:2009:016) (Apr 3)
 

The Sun JDK 5 was updated to Update18 and the Sun JDK 6 was updated to Update 13 to fix various bugs and security issues

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148487
  SuSE: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:2009:015) (Apr 3)
 

The following security issues were fixed...

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148486

  Ubuntu: PostgreSQL vulnerability (Apr 7)
 

It was discovered that PostgreSQL did not properly handle encoding conversion failures. An attacker could exploit this by sending specially crafted requests to PostgreSQL, leading to a denial of service.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/148510

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