Secunia

SUSE has issued an update for multiple packages. This fixes some security issues and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and bypass certain security restrictions, malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system, and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, conduct session fixation attacks, cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS, and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA33014
SA31330
SA31450
SA31478
SA31502
SA31567
SA32164
SA32851
SA32964
SA33133
SA33198
SA33227
SA33356
SA33795

A vulnerability is caused due to an incorrect backport of the patch for CVE-2008-3663, resulting in an error within the handling of sessions, which can be exploited to hijack a user's session.

This is related to:
SA33517

A vulnerability is caused due to the reintroduction of CVE-2005-0448.

For more information:
SA14531

Solution
Apply updated packages using YaST Online Update or the SUSE FTP server.
Original Advisory
SUSE-SR:2009:004:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

Other references
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