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Linux Advisory Watch: July 1st, 2011
Source: LinuxSecurity Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
Thank you for reading the Linux Advisory Watch Security Newsletter.
The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick
summary of each week's vendor security bulletins and pointers on
methods to improve the security posture of your open source system.
Vulnerabilities affect nearly every vendor virtually every week, so
be sure to read through to find the updates your distributor have
made available.
sec-wall: Open Source Security Proxy - sec-wall, a recently released security proxy is a one-stop place for everything related to securing HTTP/HTTPS traffic. Designed as a pragmatic solution to the question of securing servers using SSL/TLS certificates, WS-Security, HTTP Basic/Digest Auth, custom HTTP headers, XPath expressions with an option of modifying HTTP headers and URLs on the fly.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, which could lead to denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2010-2531 [More...]
The recent tiff update DSA-2210-1 introduced a regression that could lead to encoding problems of tiff files. This update fixes this problem (bug #630042). [More...]
Updated ruby packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
Updated ruby packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
Updated ruby packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate [More...]
This kernel update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3 kernel fixes several security issues and bugs. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2011-1593: Multiple integer overflows in the next_pidmap function in kernel/pid.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a [More...]
