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Vulnerability Report: SuSE Linux 8.x
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This vulnerability report for SuSE Linux 8.x contains a complete overview of all Secunia advisories affecting it. You can use this vulnerability report to ensure that you are aware of all vulnerabilities, both patched and unpatched, affecting this product allowing you to take the necessary precautions.
If you have information about a new or an existing vulnerability in SuSE Linux 8.x then you are more than welcome to contact us.
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Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities
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60 Secunia Advisories in 2003
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Secunia has issued a total of 60 Secunia advisories in 2003 for SuSE Linux 8.x. Currently, 3% (2 out of 60) are marked as unpatched with the most severe being rated Less critical 
More information about the specific Secunia advisories affecting SuSE Linux 8.x can be found below. Each Secunia advisory is enclosed by a box highlighted with a color representing its current patch status. You can read the complete Secunia advisories for thorough descriptions of the issues covered and for solution suggestions by clicking either the Secunia advisory title or the "Read More" links available for each Secunia advisory.
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Release Date:
2003-12-15 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10431 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for lftp. These fix two vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-05 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10365 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for the kernel. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10357 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for rsync. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10349 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Spoofing
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for gpg, which fix two vulnerabilities. These can be exploited to disclose private ElGamal keys or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10315 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for bind. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited to poison the DNS cache with negative entries. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-11-18 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10254 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for sane. These fix several vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-11-11 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10185 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has reported a vulnerability in HylaFAX, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-31 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10116 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of system information
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for thttpd. These fix an older vulnerability, which can be exploited to disclose system information, and a new vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-08 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9971 |
Solution Status:
Unpatched |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in SuSE Linux, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-02 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9911 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for lsh. These fix some vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9907 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for MySQL. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-09-23 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9815 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for sendmail. These fix a vulnerability, which potentially could allow malicious people to gain system access. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-09-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9750 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for ssh. These fix a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-09-11 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9708 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for Pine. These fix two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-09-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9669 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for pam_smb. These fix a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-08-27 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9615 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for Sendmail. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system or potentially compromise it. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-08-13 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9515 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued an update for the kernel. This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-08-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9437 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of system information
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for Postfix. These fix two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system or use it to conduct bounce scans and Distributed DoS attacks against other systems. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-22 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9316 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities has been identified in the Linux Kernel. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-15 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9272 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for nfs-utils. These fix a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-14 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9259 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in nfs-utils, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9154 |
Solution Status:
Unpatched |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in the 2.4 version of the Linux kernel, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive information. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9057 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Linux-PAM, which allows malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-16 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9034 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for radiusd-cistron. These fix a vulnerability, which could be exploited by malicious people to crash a server and potentially compromise it. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-09 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8967 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for CUPS. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by a malicious user to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a print server. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-09 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8965 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued an update for pptpd to fix a vulnerability allowing malicious people to gain system access. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8936 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
Three vulnerabilities have been identified in the Linux Kernel 2.4 branch. One can be exploited to cause a Denial of Service by a malicious person and is very similar to the recent Linux Kernel Denial of Service. The others are local Denial of Service vulnerabilities. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-05-28 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8870 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for glibc. A vulnerability has been discovered allowing malicious users to cause an integer overflow, which could lead to a Denial of Service and possibly also execution of arbitrary code. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-24 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8655 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for KDE. These fix some vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-22 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8632 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Xinetd, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-08 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8537 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for samba. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by anonymous users to gain root privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-07 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8533 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Samba is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which can be exploited by anonymous users. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8516 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for openssl. These fix two information disclosure vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of the pre-master secret or server's private key. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8482 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for sendmail. These fix a vulnerability in the address parsing, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a vulnerable mail server. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-30 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8446 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Sendmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-26 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8408 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
SuSE has released updated packages for the kernel. These fix an vulnerability in ptrace, which can be exploited by local, malicious users to escalate their privileges to "root". [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-26 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8422 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for apcupsd. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a slave device. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-24 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8397 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated packages for mutt. A vulnerabillity has been identified in the handling of IMAP folders, which might allow malicious servers to execute arbitrary code on the client system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-21 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8374 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
SuSE has released updates for the utility "file". These fix a vulnerability exploitable by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-21 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8373 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates for Ethereal. Two vulnerabilities has been discovered, a format string vulnerability in the handling of certain socks packets and a heap overflow in the handling of NTLMSSP. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-21 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8372 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates for Qpopper to fix a buffer overflow allowing authenticated remote users to cause a buffer overflow. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-20 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8347 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability identified in multiple *NIX operating systems and software can be exploited by malicious people to conduct a DoS attack (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system or potentially compromise it. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-19 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8340 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued an update for samba. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable samba server. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8299 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Samba, which can be exploited by a malicious person to compromise a vulnerable server. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-13 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8292 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates for tcpdump to fix a Denial of Service vulnerability in the handling of ISAKMP or BGP packets. A potential buffer overflow vulnerability when handling malformed NFS packets has also been fixed. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-05 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8224 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A boundary error identified in the utility "file" included in many *nix distributions can potentially be exploited by malicious users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8197 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates for sendmail. Sendmail has been found vulnerable to an issue that could lead to remote root compromise. The problem is with parsing of certain headers. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-28 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8177 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates for hypermail after finding multiple vulnerabilities. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-26 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8160 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has released updated packages for openssl. These eliminate an information disclosure vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of a used plaintext block in a SSL/TLS session. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-26 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8159 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
[Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-19 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8087 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Security Bypass
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates to IMP, IMP does not verify input correctly this allows SQL injcetion. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-19 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8086 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updated PHP packages to fix a vulnerability, which can be expoited to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-30 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7975 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
The plptools daemon plpnfsd is vulnerable to an issue allowing local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-22 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7923 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates to fix the double-free vulnerability in CVS, allowing anonymous remote users to execute arbitrary code. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-20 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7906 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates to susehelp. susehelp installs CGI programs, these CGI programs do not check input for malicious characters this can be exploited to run arbitrary commands on the system as user wwwrun. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-16 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7877 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
The problem exists within the minires library which provide functions to dynamically update name servers. The stack overflows are exploitable by sending DHCP requests with a large hostname, this can be used to execute arbitrary code. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-14 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7863 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
[Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-02 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7804 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
Privilege escalation
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates to address a Denial of Service and a privilege escalation vulnerability. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-02 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7803 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates to CUPS to fix multiple vulnerabilities. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-02 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7802 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
SuSE has issued updates to fetchmail, to fix a remotely expoitable heap overflow. [Read More]
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