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SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages
Secunia Advisory: SA14900
Release Date: 2005-04-11
Popularity: 6,779 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:SuSE eMail Server 3.x
SuSE Linux 7.x
SuSE Linux 8.x
SuSE Linux 9.0
SuSE Linux 9.1
SUSE Linux 9.2
SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
SuSE Linux Database Server
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.x
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
SuSE Linux Firewall on CD/Admin host
SuSE Linux Office Server
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4.x
SuSE Linux Standard Server 8

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Description:
SUSE has issued updates for multiple packages. These fix various vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges and by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Certain input passed to network scripts from netapplet isn't properly sanitised. This can be exploited to execute commands with root privileges.

This only affects Novell Linux Desktop 9.

2) A security issue in tetex can be used enumerate the presence of arbitrary files by placing symlinks in "/var/cache/fonts".

For more information other issues fixed by the updates:
SA14441
SA12553
SA14776

Change Page:
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