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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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27 Secunia Advisories in 2003
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Secunia has issued a total of 27 Secunia advisories in 2003 for Red Hat Linux 6.2. Currently, 0% (0 out of 27) 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:
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:
2003-03-20 |
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:
2003-03-17 |
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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