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Vulnerability Report: Red Hat Linux 6.2
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This vulnerability report for Red Hat Linux 6.2 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 Red Hat Linux 6.2 then you are more than welcome to contact us.
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Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities
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44 Secunia Advisories in 2003-2009
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Secunia has issued a total of 44 Secunia advisories in 2003-2009 for Red Hat Linux 6.2. Currently, 0% (0 out of 44) are marked as unpatched.
More information about the specific Secunia advisories affecting Red Hat Linux 6.2 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:
2003-06-17 |
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:
2003-04-22 |
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:
2003-04-07 |
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:
2003-04-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8479 |
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:
Red Hat 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:
SA8480 |
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:
Red Hat 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:
2003-03-31 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8462 |
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:
Red Hat 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:
2003-03-27 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8429 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Security Bypass
Spoofing
Exposure of system information
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
RedHat has released updated packages for Kerberos. These fix several vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to disclose information, cause a Denial of Service or compromise a system. [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:
2003-03-20 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8352 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
Privilege escalation
Exposure of sensitive information
Exposure of system information
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
RedHat has released updated packages for the 2.2 kernel. These fix three vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to cause a local DoS (Denial of Service), escalate privileges or gain knowledge of sensitive information. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8309 |
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:
RedHat has issued updated packages for rxvt. These eliminate a vulnerability allowing malicious people to manipulate actions taken by the system administrator and other users on a system. [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:
2003-03-10 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8249 |
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:
RedHat 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:
2003-03-07 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8239 |
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:
RedHat has released updates 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:
2003-03-05 |
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:
2003-02-13 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8050 |
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:
RedHat has issued updated packages to fix a vulnerability in fileutils. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-13 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8045 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Manipulation of data
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
RedHat has issued updated packages to fix a vulnerability in lynx. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-06 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8014 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to Xpdf to close the integer overflow vulnerability found in CUPS and Xpdf. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-06 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8013 |
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:
[Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-06 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8012 |
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:
2003-01-31 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7979 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to kerberos to fix a vulnerability in the ftp client. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-22 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7917 |
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:
RedHat has issued patches to an older issue in python, where python handled tmp files insecurely, this allowed local users to gain privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-21 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7910 |
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:
RedHat 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:
2003-01-16 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7885 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to vim. It is possible to create malicious text files that can execute arbitrary commands when loaded into vim. The problem is that vim reads the text file and looks for comments, these comments can be exploited to call external commands. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-15 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7867 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to postgresql, to fix multiple buffer overflows. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-13 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7856 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to libpng. libpng fails to calculate the starting offset for loops correctly, this allows png files to overwrite the buffer. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7811 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to pine. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-12-26 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7785 |
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:
Xpdf and CUPS has been found vulnerable to an integer overflow in pdftops. This can be exploited to execute code with the privileges of the user running xpdf or the lp user. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-12-18 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7746 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Linux Kernel 2.2 has been found vulnerable to a Denial of Service condition. It is possible for local users to read the memory used by certain programs by using "/proc/pid/mem" and "mmap()". [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-12-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7732 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to fetchmail, to fix a remotely expoitable heap overflow. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-12-13 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7705 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Cross Site Scripting
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for apache to address the following problems: [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-12-10 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7676 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to wget, which is used to retrieve files from remote web and ftp sites. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-11-26 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7602 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
RedHat has issued updates to the Linux kernel, this fixes the local Denial of Service vulnerability. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-11-07 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7465 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to the critical kadmind4 vulnerability. kadmind4 contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow, exploits are in the wild. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-11-07 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7460 |
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:
RedHat has issued new glibc packages, to address the resolver vulnerability. It causes some programs to crash when DNS responses are larger than 1024 characters. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-24 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7380 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to the ypserv issue, it is possible to cause a memory leak in ypserv which will cause the system to consume more and more memory. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7330 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to security issues in the kernel. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-14 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7298 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to the dvips issue which allows remote print user to execute arbitrary code. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-11 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7274 |
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:
RedHat has issued updates to the recently discovered vulnerabilities in gv. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-08 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7248 |
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:
RedHat has releasednew packages to deal with the recent fetchmail issue. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7223 |
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:
RedHat has issued packages to deal with a buffer overflow that exist in tcpdump when handling NFS packets. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7222 |
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 buffer overflow exists in resolver code in glibc up to and including 2.2.5 [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-10-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7224 |
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:
RedHat has issued updated packages to fix two issues in nss_ldap. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2002-09-29 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7173 |
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:
Red Hat has issued updates for unzip and tar. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause files to be extracted to arbitrary locations on a user's system. [Read More]
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