LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 18, 2007

The future of AppArmor

Late last month, Novell laid off the development team for the AppArmor security tool. AppArmor is widely deployed by SUSE Linux users to restrict programs from accessing things that they shouldn't. Novell intends to keep shipping AppArmor, while two other distributions are adding support for it, which makes this move a bit puzzling. Reasons are hard to come by when a "reduction in force" (a common euphemism for layoff) happens, but Novell did clearly indicate that they had no plans to stop using AppArmor as the "core security technology in SUSE Linux Enterprise."

When a project team is laid off, it is common for the team to lose interest in the project – go off to find other things to do – but that does not appear to be the case here. Some of the laid-off team members have formed Mercenary Linux to do AppArmor consulting. They intend to work with Novell and others to guide AppArmor through the kernel submission process, with the goal of getting merged into the mainline. There are some hurdles to clear before that can happen – if it does – but AppArmor does not have the look of a project being abandoned, at least yet.

AppArmor was originally a proprietary program, which Novell acquired in 2005 when they bought Immunix, the company that developed it. In January 2006, Novell released it under the GPL and in April of that year, submitted it as a patch for inclusion in the kernel. The reaction was rather unfavorable, with the main issue being the reliance on paths, rather than information stored in the filesystem inode, to determine security policy. The main advantage cited by AppArmor proponents is that it is much easier to understand and manage compared to SELinux, its main competitor in the Linux security module arena.

AppArmor is included in SUSE Linux and has become popular, so much so that both Mandriva and Ubuntu are shipping it in their next releases. Because of that, Crispin Cowan, founder of Immunix and former AppArmor team lead at Novell, guesses that "by early 2008 a majority of all Linux users will have AppArmor running on their desktop."

After letting the developers go, Novell has no plans to stop shipping AppArmor according to Kevan Barney, senior public relations manager:

AppArmor is shifting to an open source development model, where Novell will still be participating as part of the community. As Barney puts it:

Cowan agrees that the project is moving away from a one-company model: "AppArmor is becoming a truly distributed open source project, and Mercenary Linux hopes to be the hub of that community." He and the other former team members who formed Mercenary Linux are poised to assist with AppArmor development:

Both Novell and Mercenary will be pushing to get AppArmor into the kernel, with another patch submission from Novell expected soon. The impediments to getting those patches accepted are outlined by Cowan:

AppArmor provides some amount of protection against programs trying to access files or perform actions that they shouldn't. Just how much protection it provides is the subject of much debate. There are valid concerns that it papers over the complexities of securing Linux, providing a false sense of security, but it would appear that there is a clear path for it to be included in the kernel. After Linus Torvalds's recent pronouncement that the Linux Security Modules API would stay in the kernel, one potential barrier to AppArmor acceptance has fallen.

It remains to be seen if Novell, Mercenary, and the AppArmor community can work with the kernel hackers to resolve some outstanding issues. The path-based architecture of AppArmor, while contentious, is not likely to keep it out of the kernel. It has been a year and a half since the first submission, though; it will require a concerted effort to work through the process. With three distributions shipping it and minimal impact on those who do not enable it, it seems pretty unlikely that it will stay out forever.

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A visit from the trolls

We have been hearing the warnings for years: sooner or later, software patents were destined to be used against free software. When dire warnings are repeated over a long period of time, it can become easy to shrug them off and assume that nothing will ever really come of them. But complacency does not make the problem go away. And now we have, in the form of a lawsuit filed against Red Hat and Novell by IP Innovation LLC, a reminder that the software patent threat is real.

Three patents are named in the brief complaint [PDF]:

• #5,072,412, "User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects". Filed in March, 1987.

• #5,533,183, which has the same title. Filed in February, 1995.

• #5,394,521, again with the same title. Filed in May, 1993.

As might be imagined, the three patents all read about the same. Those who are not afraid of patentese can get a feel for what has been patented by reading the first claim of #5,072,412 - one of the claims alleged to be violated by the defendants:

This claim seems like a fairly straightforward description of a window manager which provides multiple virtual desktops. It does not take a whole lot of imagination to extend this reading to describe the behavior of two windows on the same desktop. Finding software within a Linux system which can be said to infringe upon these patents is probably not all that hard to do. Eliminating all code which could be said to infringe, instead, could be difficult indeed. (Bear in mind, though, that your editor is fortunate enough not to be a patent attorney; anybody needing a definitive interpretation of this patent should consult people who know what they are talking about).

The defense against this attack will require either (1) the location of sufficient prior art to invalidate the patents, or (2) an argument that, by the allegedly tightened definition of "obviousness" in the U.S., the technology patented is not sufficiently innovative. Red Hat and Novell have not shared their defensive strategy with the world, and they are unlikely to do so in the near future. We will almost certainly have to wait and see how they answer the charges in court.

As an alternative, the two companies could pay the troll in exchange for an agreement allowing the patented technology to be used in GPL-licensed software. Assuming an agreement could be reached, this approach would solve the immediate problem. But it would also encourage every other patent troll out there to head to court in search of a turn at the trough. It would be far better to defeat this attack if at all possible. Regardless of how this case plays out, though, we can be sure that it will not be the last. There is no shortage of software patents in the U.S. and no shortage of lawyers willing to turn them into lawsuits. The system encourages this sort of litigation.

For this reason, your editor feels that the current focus on finding links between this suit and Microsoft is misplaced. It may well be that Microsoft is lurking in the shadows somewhere, directing the entire operation. Your editor has no way of knowing. But there's a couple of things which should be kept in mind when trying to make that connection.

The first is that Microsoft's presence is in no way necessary to explain this series of events. Patent trolls are not in short supply, and neither are patent infringement lawsuits. It was a certainty that one of these trolls was going to turn its attention to free software companies sooner or later. IP Innovations, owned by well-known patent troll Acacia, is no stranger to this sort of litigation; it could have easily decided on this course of action on its own.

Second, it's not clear that this attack, at this time, is in Microsoft's interest. For all the talk of the safety provided by Novell's purchase of a patent non-license from Microsoft, Novell, too, has been sued. No users have been sued, but, should the plaintiffs decide to target Linux users, Novell's customers will be just as exposed as Red Hat's customers. Any other company which might be considering the purchase of a "covenant not to sue" from Microsoft need only look at this case to see that the covenant has not solved the problem: the company which bought the covenant is in the same position as the company which refused to do so. This attack can also only serve to clarify the problems with software patents in parts of the world which do not currently allow software to be patented.

In other words, this lawsuit has driven home the fact that, with regard to software patents in the U.S., Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft's own experience on the receiving end of patent infringement lawsuits should also make that clear. Whether or not Microsoft is behind this suit, the real problem is the current software patent regime in the U.S. and the litigation-friendly environment which supports it. If Microsoft were to vanish tomorrow, the threat would not be reduced in any appreciable way. So putting the focus on Microsoft is a mistake; we have a much bigger problem than that.

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Memory part 4: NUMA support

[Editor's note: welcome to part 4 of Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory"; this section discusses the particular challenges associated with non-uniform memory access (NUMA) systems. Those who have not read part 1, part 2, and part 3 may wish to do so now. As always, please send typo reports and the like to lwn@lwn.net rather than posting them as comments here.]

5 NUMA Support

In Section 2 we saw that, on some machines, the cost of access to specific regions of physical memory differs depending on where the access originated. This type of hardware requires special care from the OS and the applications. We will start with a few details of NUMA hardware, then we will cover some of the support the Linux kernel provides for NUMA.

5.1 NUMA Hardware

Non-uniform memory architectures are becoming more and more common. In the simplest form of NUMA, a processor can have local memory (see Figure 2.3) which is cheaper to access than memory local to other processors. The difference in cost for this type of NUMA system is not high, i.e., the NUMA factor is low.

NUMA is also—and especially—used in big machines. We have described the problems of having many processors access the same memory. For commodity hardware all processors would share the same Northbridge (ignoring the AMD Opteron NUMA nodes for now, they have their own problems). This makes the Northbridge a severe bottleneck since all memory traffic is routed through it. Big machines can, of course, use custom hardware in place of the Northbridge but, unless the memory chips used have multiple ports—i.e. they can be used from multiple busses—there still is a bottleneck. Multiport RAM is complicated and expensive to build and support and, therefore, it is hardly ever used.

The next step up in complexity is the model AMD uses where an interconnect mechanism (Hypertransport in AMD's case, technology they licensed from Digital) provides access for processors which are not directly connected to the RAM. The size of the structures which can be formed this way is limited unless one wants to increase the diameter (i.e., the maximum distance between any two nodes) arbitrarily.

Figure 5.1: Hypercubes

An efficient topology for the nodes is the hypercube, which limits the number of nodes to 2^C where C is the number of interconnect interfaces each node has. Hypercubes have the smallest diameter for all systems with 2ⁿ CPUs. Figure 5.1 shows the first three hypercubes. Each hypercube has a diameter of C which is the absolute minimum. AMD's first-generation Opteron processors have three hypertransport links per processor. At least one of the processors has to have a Southbridge attached to one link, meaning, currently, that a hypercube with C=2 can be implemented directly and efficiently. The next generation is announced to have four links, at which point C=3 hypercubes will be possible.

This does not mean, though, that larger accumulations of processors cannot be supported. There are companies which have developed crossbars allowing larger sets of processors to be used (e.g., Newisys's Horus). But these crossbars increase the NUMA factor and they stop being effective at a certain number of processors.

The next step up means connecting groups of CPUs and implementing a shared memory for all of them. All such systems need specialized hardware and are by no means commodity systems. Such designs exist at several levels of complexity. A system which is still quite close to a commodity machine is IBM x445 and similar machines. They can be bought as ordinary 4U, 8-way machines with x86 and x86-64 processors. Two (at some point up to four) of these machines can then be connected to work as a single machine with shared memory. The interconnect used introduces a significant NUMA factor which the OS, as well as applications, must take into account.

At the other end of the spectrum, machines like SGI's Altix are designed specifically to be interconnected. SGI's NUMAlink interconnect fabric is very fast and has a low latency; both of these are requirements for high-performance computing (HPC), especially when Message Passing Interfaces (MPI) are used. The drawback is, of course, that such sophistication and specialization is very expensive. They make a reasonably low NUMA factor possible but with the number of CPUs these machines can have (several thousands) and the limited capacity of the interconnects, the NUMA factor is actually dynamic and can reach unacceptable levels depending on the workload.

More commonly used are solutions where clusters of commodity machines are connected using high-speed networking. But these are not NUMA machines; they do not implement a shared address space and therefore do not fall into any category which is discussed here.

5.2 OS Support for NUMA

To support NUMA machines, the OS has to take the distributed nature of the memory into account. For instance, if a process is run on a given processor, the physical RAM assigned to the process's address space should come from local memory. Otherwise each instruction has to access remote memory for code and data. There are special cases to be taken into account which are only present in NUMA machines. The text segment of DSOs is normally present exactly once in a machine's physical RAM. But if the DSO is used by processes and threads on all CPUs (for instance, the basic runtime libraries like libc) this means that all but a few processors have to have remote accesses. The OS ideally would “mirror” such DSOs into each processor's physical RAM and use local copies. This is an optimization, not a requirement, and generally hard to implement. It might not be supported or only in a limited fashion.

To avoid making the situation worse, the OS should not migrate a process or thread from one node to another. The OS should already try to avoid migrating processes on normal multi-processor machines because migrating from one processor to another means the cache content is lost. If load distribution requires migrating a process or thread off of a processor, the OS can usually pick an arbitrary new processor which has sufficient capacity left. In NUMA environments the selection of the new processor is a bit more limited. The newly selected processor should not have higher access costs to the memory the process is using than the old processor; this restricts the list of targets. If there is no free processor matching that criteria available, the OS has no choice but to migrate to a processor where memory access is more expensive.

In this situation there are two possible ways forward. First, one can hope the situation is temporary and the process can be migrated back to a better-suited processor. Alternatively, the OS can also migrate the process's memory to physical pages which are closer to the newly-used processor. This is quite an expensive operation. Possibly huge amounts of memory have to be copied, albeit not necessarily in one step. While this is happening the process, at least briefly, has to be stopped so that modifications to the old pages are correctly migrated. There are a whole list of other requirements for page migration to be efficient and fast. In short, the OS should avoid it unless it is really necessary.

Generally, it cannot be assumed that all processes on a NUMA machine use the same amount of memory such that, with the distribution of processes across the processors, memory usage is also equally distributed. In fact, unless the applications running on the machines are very specific (common in the HPC world, but not outside) the memory use will be very unequal. Some applications will use vast amounts of memory, others hardly any. This will, sooner or later, lead to problems if memory is always allocated local to the processor where the request is originated. The system will eventually run out of memory local to nodes running large processes.

In response to these severe problems, memory is, by default, not allocated exclusively on the local node. To utilize all the system's memory the default strategy is to stripe the memory. This guarantees equal use of all the memory of the system. As a side effect, it becomes possible to freely migrate processes between processors since, on average, the access cost to all the memory used does not change. For small NUMA factors, striping is acceptable but still not optimal (see data in Section 5.4).

This is a pessimization which helps the system avoid severe problems and makes it more predictable under normal operation. But it does decrease overall system performance, in some situations significantly. This is why Linux allows the memory allocation rules to be selected by each process. A process can select a different strategy for itself and its children. We will introduce the interfaces which can be used for this in Section 6.

5.3 Published Information

The kernel publishes, through the sys pseudo file system (sysfs), information about the processor caches below

    /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache

In Section 6.2.1 we will see interfaces which can be used to query the size of the various caches. What is important here is the topology of the caches. The directories above contain subdirectories (named index*) which list information about the various caches the CPU possesses. The files type, level, and shared_cpu_map are the important files in these directories as far as the topology is concerned. For an Intel Core 2 QX6700 the information looks as in Table 5.1.

		type	level	shared_cpu_map
cpu0	index0	Data	1	00000001
	index1	Instruction	1	00000001
	index2	Unified	2	00000003
cpu1	index0	Data	1	00000002
	index1	Instruction	1	00000002
	index2	Unified	2	00000003
cpu2	index0	Data	1	00000004
	index1	Instruction	1	00000004
	index2	Unified	2	0000000c
cpu3	index0	Data	1	00000008
	index1	Instruction	1	00000008
	index2	Unified	2	0000000c

Table 5.1: sysfs Information for Core 2 CPU Caches

What this data means is as follows:

• Each core {The knowledge that cpu0 to cpu3 are cores comes from another place that will be explained shortly.} has three caches: L1i, L1d, L2.

• The L1d and L1i caches are not shared with anybody—each core has its own set of caches. This is indicated by the bitmap in shared_cpu_map having only one set bit.

• The L2 cache on cpu0 and cpu1 is shared, as is the L2 on cpu2 and cpu3.

If the CPU had more cache levels, there would be more index* directories.

For a four-socket, dual-core Opteron machine the cache information looks like Table 5.2:

		type	level	shared_cpu_map
cpu0	index0	Data	1	00000001
	index1	Instruction	1	00000001
	index2	Unified	2	00000001
cpu1	index0	Data	1	00000002
	index1	Instruction	1	00000002
	index2	Unified	2	00000002
cpu2	index0	Data	1	00000004
	index1	Instruction	1	00000004
	index2	Unified	2	00000004
cpu3	index0	Data	1	00000008
	index1	Instruction	1	00000008
	index2	Unified	2	00000008
cpu4	index0	Data	1	00000010
	index1	Instruction	1	00000010
	index2	Unified	2	00000010
cpu5	index0	Data	1	00000020
	index1	Instruction	1	00000020
	index2	Unified	2	00000020
cpu6	index0	Data	1	00000040
	index1	Instruction	1	00000040
	index2	Unified	2	00000040
cpu7	index0	Data	1	00000080
	index1	Instruction	1	00000080
	index2	Unified	2	00000080

Table 5.2: sysfs Information for Opteron CPU Caches

As can be seen these processors also have three caches: L1i, L1d, L2. None of the cores shares any level of cache. The interesting part for this system is the processor topology. Without this additional information one cannot make sense of the cache data. The sys file system exposes this information in the files below

    /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology

Table 5.3 shows the interesting files in this hierarchy for the SMP Opteron machine.

	physical_ package_id	core_id	core_ siblings	thread_ siblings
cpu0	0	0	00000003	00000001
cpu1		1	00000003	00000002
cpu2	1	0	0000000c	00000004
cpu3		1	0000000c	00000008
cpu4	2	0	00000030	00000010
cpu5		1	00000030	00000020
cpu6	3	0	000000c0	00000040
cpu7		1	000000c0	00000080

Table 5.3: sysfs Information for Opteron CPU Topology

Taking Table 5.2 and Table 5.3 together we can see that no CPU has hyper-threads (the thread_siblings bitmaps have one bit set), that the system in fact has four processors (physical_package_id 0 to 3), that each processor has two cores, and that none of the cores share any cache. This is exactly what corresponds to earlier Opterons.

What is completely missing in the data provided so far is information about the nature of NUMA on this machine. Any SMP Opteron machine is a NUMA machine. For this data we have to look at yet another part of the sys file system which exists on NUMA machines, namely in the hierarchy below

    /sys/devices/system/node

This directory contains a subdirectory for every NUMA node on the system. In the node-specific directories there are a number of files. The important files and their content for the Opteron machine described in the previous two tables are shown in Table 5.4.

	cpumap	distance
node0	00000003	10 20 20 20
node1	0000000c	20 10 20 20
node2	00000030	20 20 10 20
node3	000000c0	20 20 20 10

Table 5.4: sysfs Information for Opteron Nodes

This information ties all the rest together; now we have a complete picture of the architecture of the machine. We already know that the machine has four processors. Each processor constitutes its own node as can be seen by the bits set in the value in cpumap file in the node* directories. The distance files in those directories contains a set of values, one for each node, which represent a cost of memory accesses at the respective nodes. In this example all local memory accesses have the cost 10, all remote access to any other node has the cost 20. {This is, by the way, incorrect. The ACPI information is apparently wrong since, although the processors used have three coherent HyperTransport links, at least one processor must be connected to a Southbridge. At least one pair of nodes must therefore have a larger distance.} This means that, even though the processors are organized as a two-dimensional hypercube (see Figure 5.1), accesses between processors which are not directly connected is not more expensive. The relative values of the costs should be usable as an estimate of the actual difference of the access times. The accuracy of all this information is another question.

5.4 Remote Access Costs

The distance is relevant, though. In [amdccnuma] AMD documents the NUMA cost of a four socket machine. For write operations the numbers are shown in Figure 5.3.

Figure 5.3: Read/Write Performance with Multiple Nodes

Writes are slower than reads, this is no surprise. The interesting parts are the costs of the 1- and 2-hop cases. The two 1-hop cases actually have slightly different costs. See [amdccnuma] for the details. The fact we need to remember from this chart is that 2-hop reads and writes are 30% and 49% (respectively) slower than 0-hop reads. 2-hop writes are 32% slower than 0-hop writes, and 17% slower than 1-hop writes. The relative position of processor and memory nodes can make a big difference. The next generation of processors from AMD will feature four coherent HyperTransport links per processor. In that case a four socket machine would have diameter of one. With eight sockets the same problem returns, with a vengeance, since the diameter of a hypercube with eight nodes is three.

All this information is available but it is cumbersome to use. In Section 6.5 we will see an interface which helps accessing and using this information easier.

The last piece of information the system provides is in the status of a process itself. It is possible to determine how the memory-mapped files, Copy-On-Write (COW) pages and anonymous memory are distributed over the nodes in the system. {Copy-On-Write is a method often used in OS implementations when a memory page has one user at first and then has to be copied to allow independent users. In many situations the copying is unnecessary, at all or at first, in which case it makes sense to only copy when either user modifies the memory. The operating system intercepts the write operation, duplicates the memory page, and then allows the write instruction to proceed.} Each process has a file /proc/PID/numa_maps, where PID is the ID of the process, as shown in Figure 5.2.

00400000 default file=/bin/cat mapped=3 N3=3
00504000 default file=/bin/cat anon=1 dirty=1 mapped=2 N3=2
00506000 default heap anon=3 dirty=3 active=0 N3=3
38a9000000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.4.so mapped=22 mapmax=47 N1=22
38a9119000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.4.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1
38a911a000 default file=/lib64/ld-2.4.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1
38a9200000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.4.so mapped=53 mapmax=52 N1=51 N2=2
38a933f000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.4.so
38a943f000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.4.so anon=1 dirty=1 mapped=3 mapmax=32 N1=2 N3=1
38a9443000 default file=/lib64/libc-2.4.so anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1
38a9444000 default anon=4 dirty=4 active=0 N3=4
2b2bbcdce000 default anon=1 dirty=1 N3=1
2b2bbcde4000 default anon=2 dirty=2 N3=2
2b2bbcde6000 default file=/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive mapped=11 mapmax=8 N0=11
7fffedcc7000 default stack anon=2 dirty=2 N3=2

Figure 5.2: Content of /proc/PID/numa_maps

The important information in the file is the values for N0 to N3, which indicate the number of pages allocated for the memory area on nodes 0 to 3. It is a good guess that the program was executed on a core on node 3. The program itself and the dirtied pages are allocated on that node. Read-only mappings, such as the first mapping for ld-2.4.so and libc-2.4.so as well as the shared file locale-archive are allocated on other nodes.

As we have seen in Figure 5.3 the read performance across nodes falls by 9% and 30% respectively for 1- and 2-hop reads. For execution, such reads are needed and, if the L2 cache is missed, each cache line incurs these additional costs. All the costs measured for large workloads beyond the size of the cache would have to be increased by 9%/30% if the memory is remote to the processor.

Figure 5.4: Operating on Remote Memory

To see the effects in the real world we can measure the bandwidth as in Section 3.5.1 but this time with the memory being on a remote node, one hop away. The result of this test when compared with the data for using local memory can be seen in Figure 5.4. The numbers have a few big spikes in both directions which are the result of a problem of measuring multi-threaded code and can be ignored. The important information in this graph is that read operations are always 20% slower. This is significantly slower than the 9% in Figure 5.3, which is, most likely, not a number for uninterrupted read/write operations and might refer to older processor revisions. Only AMD knows.

For working set sizes which fit into the caches, the performance of write and copy operations is also 20% slower. For working sets exceeding the size of the caches, the write performance is not measurably slower than the operation on the local node. The speed of the interconnect is fast enough to keep up with the memory. The dominating factor is the time spent waiting on the main memory.

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Page editor: Jonathan Corbet

Security

Cross-site request forgery

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF or XSRF) is yet another web application flaw that can have serious impacts. By exploiting the trust that the targeted site has in a logged-in user, usually encapsulated in a cookie, CSRF can perform actions on behalf of that user, without any indication that the action took place. It shares many traits with its better-known sibling, cross-site scripting (XSS), but, unlike a site targeted via XSS (for login spoofing or cookie stealing for example), the target web site can make changes to avoid CSRF.

A CSRF attack targets a specific web site, one that requires credentials to perform actions. Financial and shopping sites are common targets, but as described in last week's article on this page, home routers and similar equipment are also targets. Another popular target is sites like Digg, where users vote on particular stories to increase their popularity; an attacker can drive more traffic to a site of their choosing by using a CSRF exploit to add votes.

The exploit itself is typically contained in an <img> tag or form submission, with Javascript sometimes used to hide the form submission. The URL used causes some kind of side effect on the target website as long as a properly authenticated cookie is delivered with the request. For example, if LWN had a voting system, a tag like the following could perform a CSRF exploit:

    <img src="http://lwn.net/vote?type=y;story=some_lame_story_URL" width=0 height=0>

When the browser goes to fetch that "image", it helpfully sends along any cookies that correspond to the domain; if the vote application wasn't written correctly, anyone viewing the web page - and who was also logged-in to LWN - would add a vote for the story. There would be no indication that anything had happened, other than possibly a fleeting notice in the browser noting a connection to LWN.

Getting the user to visit the page with the CSRF is done in the usual way, via a link in email, instant message, or on another web page. CSRF does not require inserting code into the vulnerable website, which is the hallmark of XSS; instead it exploits the target from afar. The link the victim follows will not in any way indicate the target site.

There are a few things that web application programmers can do to eliminate CSRF problems; the basic idea is not to perform actions solely based on a proper cookie. Just as some non-internet authentications require two forms of identification, web applications should do the same. The second identification should come from something other than the cookie, something that can be known only by a properly authenticated user.

Two basic techniques are used, random form tokens or re-authentication. For sensitive operations, the best protection is to require the user to provide their credentials (username and password for example) before performing the action. This can be cumbersome, so, for less sensitive actions, hidden fields with random names and values can be inserted into each form, associated with a particular session, and checked on form submission. This isn't completely secure, as the values might be guessed, but with sufficient randomness, it is good enough for many operations.

It should be noted that preventing CSRF requires that all XSS problems are removed first. An XSS flaw can be used to retrieve the form, then grab the random tokens before submitting the CSRF request. XSS may also be able to spoof the user into entering their credentials, which would allow the CSRF to bypass re-authentication as well.

CSRF has been called the "sleeping giant" of web application security flaws, because it has yet to be exploited widely. It is only a matter of time, web programmers should be making the changes needed to ensure that their sites are not vulnerable.

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New vulnerabilities

ampache: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	ampache	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4437 CVE-2007-4438
Created:	October 15, 2007	Updated:	October 17, 2007
Description:	SQL injection vulnerability in albums.php in Ampache before 3.3.3.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the match parameter. Session fixation vulnerability in Ampache before 3.3.3.5 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-13 2007-10-13

Comments (none posted)

balsa: buffer overflow

Package(s):	balsa	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5007
Created:	October 17, 2007	Updated:	October 17, 2007
Description:	Evil Ninja Squirrel discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the ir_fetch_seq() function when receiving a long response to a FETCH command (CVE-2007-5007).
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-17 2007-10-16

Comments (none posted)

denyhosts: denial of service

Package(s):	denyhosts	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4323
Created:	October 15, 2007	Updated:	October 17, 2007
Description:	DenyHosts 2.6 does not properly parse sshd log files, which allows remote attackers to add arbitrary hosts to the /etc/hosts.deny file and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to the sshd log file, as demonstrated by logging in via ssh with a client protocol version identification containing an IP address string, a different vector than CVE-2006-6301.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-14 2007-10-13

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hplip: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):	hplip	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5208
Created:	October 12, 2007	Updated:	January 14, 2008
Description:	Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the way the hplip hpssd daemon handled user input. A local attacker could send a specially crafted request to the hpssd daemon, possibly allowing them to run arbitrary commands as the root user.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1462-1 2008-01-13 Gentoo 200710-26 2007-10-24 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:201 2007-10-22 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:021 2007-10-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-724 2007-10-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2527 2007-10-12 Ubuntu USN-530-1 2007-10-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0960-01 2007-10-11

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initscripts: information exposure

Package(s):	initscripts	CVE #(s):
Created:	October 12, 2007	Updated:	October 26, 2007
Description:	The initscripts package do not set sufficiently restrictive permissions on the /var/log/btmp file, leading to an information exposure vulnerability in which users' passwords may be revealed to unprivileged users in cases when the passwords have been inadvertently entered as usernames at some login prompts.
Alerts:	Foresight FLEA-2007-0060-1 2007-10-26 rPath rPSA-2007-0214-1 2007-10-11

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java-1.5.0-sun: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	java-1.5.0-sun	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5232 CVE-2007-5238 CVE-2007-5239 CVE-2007-5240 CVE-2007-5273 CVE-2007-5274
Created:	October 12, 2007	Updated:	April 25, 2008
Description:	Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier, when applet caching is enabled, allows remote attackers to violate the security model for an applet's outbound connections via a DNS rebinding attack. (CVE-2007-5232) Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (the Java Web Start cache location) via an untrusted application, aka "three vulnerabilities." (CVE-2007-5238) Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted (1) applications and (2) applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to copy or rename arbitrary files when local users perform drag-and-drop operations from the untrusted application or applet window onto certain types of desktop applications. (CVE-2007-5239) Visual truncation vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier allows remote attackers to circumvent display of the untrusted-code warning banner by creating a window larger than the workstation screen. (CVE-2007-5240) Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier, when an HTTP proxy server is used, allows remote attackers to violate the security model for an applet's outbound connections via a multi-pin DNS rebinding attack in which the applet download relies on DNS resolution on the proxy server, but the applet's socket operations rely on DNS resolution on the local machine, a different issue than CVE-2007-5274. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2007-5232. (CVE-2007-5273) Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, SDK and JRE 1.4.2_15 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.3.1_20 and earlier, when Firefox or Opera is used, allows remote attackers to violate the security model for JavaScript outbound connections via a multi-pin DNS rebinding attack dependent on the LiveConnect API, in which JavaScript download relies on DNS resolution by the browser, but JavaScript socket operations rely on separate DNS resolution by a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), a different issue than CVE-2007-5273. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2007-5232. (CVE-2007-5274)
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:025 2008-04-25 Gentoo 200804-20 2008-04-17 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0100-01 2008-03-11 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0156-02 2008-03-05 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0132-01 2008-02-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1041-01 2007-11-26 Foresight FLEA-2007-0061-1 2007-10-26 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:055 2007-10-17 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0963-01 2007-10-12

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libvorbis: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	libvorbis	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4065 CVE-2007-4066
Created:	October 11, 2007	Updated:	January 22, 2008
Description:	libvorbis has a number of vulnerabilities that can be triggered by opening a specially crafted Ogg file. Vulnerabilities include crashing and the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1471-1 2008-01-21 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:023 2007-10-31 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0912-01 2007-10-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:194 2007-10-10

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skktools: insecure temporary file creation

Package(s):	skktools	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3916
Created:	October 15, 2007	Updated:	October 17, 2007
Description:	skkdic-expr.c insecurely writes temporary files to a location in the form $TMPDIR/skkdic$PID.{pag,dir,db}, where $PID is the process ID. A local attacker could create symbolic links in the directory where the temporary files are written, pointing to a valid file somewhere on the filesystem that is writable by the user running the SKK software. When SKK writes the temporary file, the target valid file would then be overwritten with the contents of the SKK temporary file.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-10 2007-10-12

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tar: buffer overflow

Package(s):	tar	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4476
Created:	October 16, 2007	Updated:	March 17, 2010
Description:	Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2010:0141 2010-03-16 CentOS CESA-2010:0144 2010-03-16 Red Hat RHSA-2010:0144-01 2010-03-15 Red Hat RHSA-2010:0141-01 2010-03-15 Ubuntu USN-650-1 2008-10-02 Ubuntu USN-709-1 2009-01-15 Debian DSA-1566-1 2008-05-02 Debian DSA-1438-1 2007-12-28 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:233 2007-11-28 Gentoo 200711-18 2007-11-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2827 2007-11-06 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2800 2007-11-06 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2744 2007-11-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-742 2007-11-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-735 2007-11-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2673 2007-10-29 rPath rPSA-2007-0222-1 2007-10-23 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:197 2007-10-15

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tk: denial of service

Package(s):	tk8.3 tk8.4	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5137
Created:	October 12, 2007	Updated:	March 17, 2009
Description:	It was discovered that Tk could be made to overrun a buffer when loading certain images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted GIF image, remote attackers could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1743-1 2009-03-17 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0136-01 2008-02-21 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1131 2008-02-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-728 2007-10-17 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:200 2007-10-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2564 2007-10-18 Ubuntu USN-529-1 2007-10-11

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wesnoth: denial of service

Package(s):	wesnoth	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3917
Created:	October 12, 2007	Updated:	December 3, 2007
Description:	A malicious user could send a long chat message with multibyte characters, the server would truncate the message on a fixed length, without paying attention to the multibyte characters. This led to invalid utf-8 on the client and an uncaught exception was thrown.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1386-2 2007-10-15 Debian DSA-1386-1 2007-10-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2496 2007-10-11

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Updated vulnerabilities

acroread: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	acroread	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-5857 CVE-2007-0045 CVE-2007-0046
Created:	January 11, 2007	Updated:	October 26, 2009
Description:	Adobes acrobat reader has the following vulnerabilities: The Adobe Reader Plugin has a cross site scripting vulnerability that can be triggered by processes malformed URLs. Arbitrary JavaScript can be served by a malicious web server, leading to a cross-site scripting attack. Maliciously crafted PDF files can be used to trigger two vulnerabilities, if an attacker can trick a user into viewing the files, arbitrary code can be executed with the user's privileges.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:049 2009-10-26 Gentoo 200910-03 2009-10-25 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0021-01 2007-01-22 Gentoo 200701-16 2007-01-22 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:011 2007-01-22 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0017-01 2007-01-11

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apache2: information disclosure

Package(s):	apache	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1862
Created:	June 20, 2007	Updated:	February 18, 2008
Description:	From the Mandriva advisory: "The recall_headers function in mod_mem_cache in Apache 2.2.4 does not properly copy all levels of header data, which can cause Apache to return HTTP headers containing previously-used data, which could be used to obtain potentially sensitive information by unauthorized users."
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-1711 2008-02-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0704 2007-06-26 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:127 2007-06-19

Comments (2 posted)

apache: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	apache	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3304 CVE-2006-5752
Created:	June 27, 2007	Updated:	February 18, 2008
Description:	The Apache HTTP Server did not verify that a process was an Apache child process before sending it signals. A local attacker who has the ability to run scripts on the Apache HTTP Server could manipulate the scoreboard and cause arbitrary processes to be terminated, which could lead to a denial of service. (CVE-2007-3304) A flaw was found in the Apache HTTP Server mod_status module. Sites with the server-status page publicly accessible and ExtendedStatus enabled were vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux the server-status page is not enabled by default and it is best practice to not make this publicly available. (CVE-2006-5752)
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-1711 2008-02-15 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:061 2007-11-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2214 2007-09-18 rPath rPSA-2007-0182-1 2007-09-14 Ubuntu USN-499-1 2007-08-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0662-01 2007-07-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0557-01 2007-07-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-615 2007-07-12 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:142 2007-07-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:141 2007-07-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:140 2007-07-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-617 2007-07-02 rPath rPSA-2007-0136-1 2007-06-27 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0556-01 2007-06-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0534-01 2007-06-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0533-01 2007-06-27 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0532-01 2007-06-26

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apache: cross-site scripting

Package(s):	apache	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-3918
Created:	August 9, 2006	Updated:	April 4, 2008
Description:	From the Red Hat advisory: "A bug was found in Apache where an invalid Expect header sent to the server was returned to the user in an unescaped error message. This could allow an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim was tricked into connecting to a site and sending a carefully crafted Expect header."
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:021 2008-04-04 Ubuntu USN-575-1 2008-02-04 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:051 2006-09-08 Debian DSA-1167-1 2005-09-04 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0619-01 2006-08-10 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0618-01 2006-08-08

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httpd: denial of service, cross-site scripting

Package(s):	apache httpd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3847 CVE-2007-4465
Created:	September 25, 2007	Updated:	February 15, 2008
Description:	A flaw was found in the mod_proxy module. On sites where a reverse proxy is configured, a remote attacker could send a carefully crafted request that would cause the Apache child process handling that request to crash. On sites where a forward proxy is configured, an attacker could cause a similar crash if a user could be persuaded to visit a malicious site using the proxy. This could lead to a denial of service if using a threaded Multi-Processing Module. (CVE-2007-3847) A flaw was found in the mod_autoindex module. On sites where directory listings are used, and the AddDefaultCharset directive has been removed from the configuration, a cross-site-scripting attack may be possible against browsers which do not correctly derive the response character set following the rules in RFC 2616. (CVE-2007-4465)
Alerts:	Slackware SSA:2008-045-02 2008-02-15 Ubuntu USN-575-1 2008-02-04 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0008-01 2008-01-15 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0006-01 2008-01-15 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0005-01 2008-01-15 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0004-01 2008-01-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:235 2007-12-03 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:061 2007-11-19 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0747-02 2007-11-15 Gentoo 200711-06 2007-11-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0746-04 2007-11-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0911-01 2007-10-25 Fedora FEDORA-2007-707 2007-09-24

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avahi: denial of service

Package(s):	avahi	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3372
Created:	June 28, 2007	Updated:	December 23, 2008
Description:	Avahi is vulnerable to a local denial of service that can be caused by making an erroneous call to the assert() function.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1690-1 2008-12-22 Ubuntu USN-696-1 2008-12-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:185 2007-09-17 Foresight FLEA-2007-0030-1 2007-06-28

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bochs: buffer overflow

Package(s):	bochs	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2893
Created:	July 20, 2007	Updated:	November 19, 2007
Description:	A heap-based buffer overflow in the bx_ne2k_c::rx_frame function in iodev/ne2k.cc in the emulated NE2000 device in Bochs 2.3 allows local users of the guest operating system to write to arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges on the host operating system via vectors that cause TXCNT register values to exceed the device memory size, aka "RX Frame heap overflow."
Alerts:	Gentoo 200711-21 2007-11-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1778 2007-08-23 Debian DSA-1351-1 2007-08-07 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1153 2007-07-19

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cacti: denial of service

Package(s):	cacti	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3112 CVE-2007-3113
Created:	September 18, 2007	Updated:	December 16, 2009
Description:	A vulnerability in Cacti 0.8.6i and earlier versions allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via large values of the graph_start, graph_end, graph_height, or graph_width parameters.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1954-1 2009-12-16 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1737 2008-02-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3683 2007-11-22 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2199 2007-09-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:184 2007-09-17

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centericq: buffer overflows

Package(s):	centericq	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3713
Created:	July 20, 2007	Updated:	December 17, 2007
Description:	Multiple buffer overflows in Konst CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2007-0160.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1433-1 2007-12-16 Debian-Testing DTSA-55-1 2007-09-03 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1160 2007-07-19

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clamav: denial of service

Package(s):	clamav	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3725
Created:	July 24, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	A NULL pointer dereference has been discovered in the RAR VM of Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted RAR archives.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Gentoo 200708-04 2007-08-09 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:150 2007-07-25 Debian DSA-1340-1 2007-07-24

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clamav: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	clamav	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4510 CVE-2007-4560
Created:	September 3, 2007	Updated:	February 13, 2008
Description:	Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Clam anti-virus toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-4510: It was discovered that the RTF and RFC2397 parsers can be tricked into dereferencing a NULL pointer, resulting in denial of service. CVE-2007-4560: It was discovered clamav-milter performs insufficient input sanitizing, resulting in the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-1608 2008-02-13 Fedora FEDORA-2008-0170 2008-01-22 Gentoo 200709-14 2007-09-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2050 2007-09-07 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:172 2007-08-31 Debian DSA-1366-1 2007-09-01

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cpio: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	cpio	CVE #(s):	CVE-2005-4268
Created:	January 2, 2006	Updated:	March 17, 2010
Description:	Richard Harms discovered that cpio did not sufficiently validate file properties when creating archives. Files with e. g. a very large size caused a buffer overflow. By tricking a user or an automatic backup system into putting a specially crafted file into a cpio archive, a local attacker could probably exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the target user (which is likely root in an automatic backup system).
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2010:0145 2010-03-17 Red Hat RHSA-2010:0145-01 2010-03-15 rPath rPSA-2007-0094-1 2007-05-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0245-02 2007-05-01 Ubuntu USN-234-1 2006-01-02

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vixie-cron: privilege escalation

Package(s):	cron	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-2607
Created:	May 31, 2006	Updated:	June 1, 2009
Description:	The Vixie cron daemon does not check the return code from setuid(); if that call can be made to fail, a local attacker may be able to execute commands as root.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-778-1 2009-06-01 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0539-01 2006-07-12 Gentoo 200606-07 2006-06-09 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:027 2006-05-31 rPath rPSA-2006-0082-1 2006-05-25

Comments (1 posted)

cscope: buffer overflows

Package(s):	cscope	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4262
Created:	October 2, 2006	Updated:	June 16, 2009
Description:	Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2009:1101 2009-06-16 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1101-01 2009-06-15 Gentoo 200610-08 2006-10-20 Debian DSA-1186-1 2006-09-30

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cscope: buffer overflows

Package(s):	cscope	CVE #(s):	CVE-2004-2541
Created:	May 22, 2006	Updated:	June 19, 2009
Description:	A buffer overflow in Cscope 15.5, and possibly multiple overflows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a C file with a long #include line that is later browsed by the target.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2009:1102 2009-06-19 CentOS CESA-2009:1101 2009-06-16 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1102-01 2009-06-15 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1101-01 2009-06-15 Gentoo 200606-10 2006-06-11 Debian DSA-1064-1 2006-05-19

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cups: denial of service

Package(s):	cups	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0720
Created:	March 26, 2007	Updated:	February 7, 2008
Description:	Previous versions of the cups package could be forced to hang via a client "partially negotiating" an ssl connection. In this state, cups would not allow other connections to be made, a denial of service.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2008:036 2007-02-06 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:086 2007-04-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0123-01 2007-04-16 Gentoo 200703-28 2007-03-31 Foresight FLEA-2007-0003-1 2007-03-25

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gpdf: integer overflow

Package(s):	cups poppler xpdf	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3387
Created:	July 31, 2007	Updated:	November 28, 2007
Description:	The gpdf library contains an integer overflow which can be exploited via a malicious PDF file. This code finds its way into multiple packages, including xpdf, kpdf, poppler, cups, and more.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-3390 2007-11-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3308 2007-11-20 Gentoo 200710-20 2007-10-18 Gentoo 200710-08 2007-10-09 Gentoo 200709-12 2007-09-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-685 2007-08-30 Debian-Testing DTSA-54-1 2007-08-22 Fedora FEDORA-2007-669 2007-08-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-644 2007-08-13 Debian DSA-1357-1 2007-08-19 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:162 2007-08-14 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:165 2007-08-15 Foresight FLEA-2007-0046-1 2007-08-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1614 2007-08-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:164 2007-08-14 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:163 2007-08-14 Foresight FLEA-2007-0045-1 2007-08-14 Foresight FLEA-2007-0044-1 2007-08-14 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:158 2007-08-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:160 2007-08-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:161 2007-08-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:159 2007-08-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1594 2007-08-13 Debian DSA-1355-1 2007-08-13 Slackware SSA:2007-222-05 2007-08-13 Slackware SSA:2007-222-02 2007-08-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1547 2007-08-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1541 2007-08-10 Debian DSA-1354-1 2007-08-13 rPath rPSA-2007-0154-1 2007-08-10 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:016 2007-08-10 Ubuntu USN-496-2 2007-08-07 Debian DSA-1352-1 2007-08-07 Debian DSA-1350-1 2007-08-06 Debian DSA-1349-1 2007-08-05 Debian DSA-1348-1 2007-08-04 Debian DSA-1347-1 2007-08-04 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Ubuntu USN-496-1 2007-08-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0731-01 2007-08-01 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0735-01 2007-07-30 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0732-01 2007-07-30 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0729-01 2007-07-30 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0730-01 2007-07-30 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0720-01 2007-07-30

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debian-goodies: privilege escalation

Package(s):	debian-goodies	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3912
Created:	October 5, 2007	Updated:	March 24, 2008
Description:	Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running checkrestart.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1527-1 2008-03-24 Ubuntu USN-526-1 2007-10-04

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dovecot: privilege escalation

Package(s):	dovecot	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4211
Created:	August 15, 2007	Updated:	May 21, 2008
Description:	From the rPath advisory: "Previous versions of the dovecot package are vulnerable to a minor privilege escalation attack in which an authenticated user may exploit an ACL plugin weakness to save message flags without having proper permissions."
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0297-02 2008-05-21 Fedora FEDORA-2007-664 2007-08-20 rPath rPSA-2007-0161-1 2007-08-14

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dovecot: directory traversal

Package(s):	dovecot	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2231
Created:	May 8, 2007	Updated:	May 21, 2008
Description:	Directory traversal vulnerability in index/mbox/mbox-storage.c in Dovecot before 1.0.rc29, when using the zlib plugin, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary gzipped (.gz) mailboxes (mbox files) via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the mailbox name.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0297-02 2008-05-21 Debian DSA-1359-1 2007-08-28 Ubuntu USN-487-1 2007-07-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-493 2007-05-07

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eggdrop: stack-based buffer overflow

Package(s):	eggdrop	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2807
Created:	September 7, 2007	Updated:	December 8, 2009
Description:	A stack-based buffer overflow in mod/server.mod/servrmsg.c in Eggdrop 1.6.18, and possibly earlier, allows user-assisted, malicious remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via a long private message.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2009:126-1 2009-12-08 Debian DSA-1826-1 2009-07-04 Mandriva MDVSA-2009:126 2009-06-01 Fedora FEDORA-2009-5572 2009-05-28 Fedora FEDORA-2009-5568 2009-05-28 Debian DSA-1448-1 2008-01-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-4325 2007-12-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-4305 2007-12-10 Gentoo 200709-07 2007-09-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:175 2007-09-06

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elinks: code execution

Package(s):	elinks	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2027
Created:	May 7, 2007	Updated:	October 30, 2009
Description:	Arnaud Giersch discovered that elinks incorrectly attempted to load gettext catalogs from a relative path. If a user were tricked into running elinks from a specific directory, a local attacker could execute code with user privileges.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2009:1471-01 2009-10-01 CentOS CESA-2009:1471 2009-10-06 CentOS CESA-2009:1471 2009-10-30 Gentoo 200706-03 2007-06-06 Ubuntu USN-457-1 2007-05-07

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elinks: arbitrary file access

Package(s):	elinks	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-5925
Created:	November 16, 2006	Updated:	October 22, 2009
Description:	The elinks text-mode browser has an arbitrary file access vulnerability in the Elinks SMB protocol handler. If a user can be tricked into visiting a specially crafted web page, arbitrary files may be read or written with the user's permissions.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-851-1 2009-10-21 Gentoo 200701-27 2007-01-30 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.043 2006-12-26 Debian DSA-1240-1 2006-12-21 Gentoo 200612-16 2006-12-14 Debian DSA-1228-1 2006-12-05 Debian DSA-1226-1 2006-12-03 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1278 2006-11-21 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1277 2006-11-21 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:216 2006-11-20 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0742-01 2006-11-15

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evolution: format string error

Package(s):	evolution	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1002
Created:	March 27, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	A format string error in the "write_html()" function in calendar/gui/ e-cal-component-memo-preview.c when displaying a memo's categories can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted shared memo containing format specifiers.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Gentoo 200706-02 2007-06-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0158-01 2007-05-03 Foresight FLEA-2007-0010-1 2007-04-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-404 2007-04-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-393 2007-04-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:070 2007-03-27

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evolution-data-server: malicious server arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	evolution-data-server	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3257
Created:	June 18, 2007	Updated:	November 7, 2007
Description:	From the GNOME bugzilla: "The "SEQUENCE" value in the GData of the IMAP code (camel-imap-folder.c) is converted from a string using strtol. This allows for negative values. The imap_rescan uses this value as an int. It checks for !seq and seq>summary.length. It doesn't check for seq < 0. Although seq is used as the index of an array."
Alerts:	Gentoo 200711-04 2007-11-06 Gentoo 200707-03 2007-07-02 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:042 2007-07-05 Debian DSA-1325-1 2007-06-29 Fedora FEDORA-2007-594 2007-06-27 Fedora FEDORA-2007-595 2007-06-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:136 2007-06-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0510-01 2007-06-25 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0509-01 2007-06-25 Debian DSA-1321-1 2007-06-23 Ubuntu USN-475-1 2007-06-21 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0464 2007-06-16

Comments (1 posted)

pop mail man-in-the-middle attacks

Package(s):	evolution thunderbird mutt fetchmail	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1558
Created:	May 8, 2007	Updated:	July 3, 2009
Description:	The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, and (4) fetchmail.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2009:1140 2009-07-02 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1140-02 2009-07-02 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1447 2007-08-06 rPath rPSA-2007-0127-1 2007-06-19 Foresight FLEA-2007-0026-1 2007-06-18 rPath rPSA-2007-0122-1 2007-06-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0385-01 2007-06-07 rPath rPSA-2007-0114-1 2007-06-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:113 2007-06-04 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0386-01 2007-06-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-552 2007-05-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-550 2007-05-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-551 2007-05-31 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0401-01 2007-05-30 Fedora FEDORA-2007-539 2007-05-30 Fedora FEDORA-2007-540 2007-05-30 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0344-01 2007-05-30 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:107 2007-05-19 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:105 2007-05-17 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0353-01 2007-05-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-484 2007-05-07 Fedora FEDORA-2007-485 2007-05-07

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fetchmail: denial of service

Package(s):	fetchmail	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4565
Created:	September 5, 2007	Updated:	October 30, 2009
Description:	fetchmail before 6.3.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) by refusing certain warning messages that are sent over SMTP.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2009:1427 2009-09-08 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1427-01 2009-09-08 CentOS CESA-2009:1427 2009-10-30 Ubuntu USN-520-1 2007-09-26 Debian DSA-1377-2 2007-09-21 Debian DSA-1377 2007-09-21 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:179 2007-09-11 Foresight FLEA-2007-0053-1 2007-09-06 rPath rPSA-2007-0178-1 2007-09-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1983 2007-09-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-689 2007-09-04

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file: integer overflow

Package(s):	file	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2799
Created:	June 1, 2007	Updated:	October 19, 2007
Description:	Colin Percival from FreeBSD reported that the previous fix for the file_printf() buffer overflow introduced a new integer overflow. A remote attacker could entice a user to run the file program on an overly large file (more than 1Gb) that would trigger an integer overflow on 32-bit systems, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running file.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-19 2007-10-18 Debian DSA-1343-2 2007-09-25 Debian DSA-1343-1 2007-07-31 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:040 2007-07-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0836 2007-07-03 Fedora FEDORA-2007-538 2007-06-11 Fedora FEDORA-2007-541 2007-06-11 Ubuntu USN-439-2 2007-06-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:114 2007-06-05 Gentoo 200705-25 2007-05-31

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firebird: buffer overflow

Package(s):	firebird	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3181
Created:	July 2, 2007	Updated:	March 27, 2008
Description:	The Firebird DBMS has a buffer overflow vulnerability involving the processing of connect requests with an overly large p_cnct_count value. Remote attackers can send a specially crafted request to the server in order to potentially execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the Firebird user.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1529-1 2008-03-24 Gentoo 200707-01 2007-07-01

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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	firefox	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3844 CVE-2007-3845
Created:	August 1, 2007	Updated:	February 20, 2008
Description:	A flaw was discovered in handling of "about:blank" windows used by addons. A malicious web site could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such as passwords), of other web pages. (CVE-2007-3844) Jesper Johansson discovered that spaces and double-quotes were not correctly handled when launching external programs. In rare configurations, after tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute helpers with arbitrary arguments with the user's privileges. (CVE-2007-3845)
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2007:047 2007-02-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3414 2007-11-16 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3431 2007-11-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0981-01 2007-10-19 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0980-01 2007-10-19 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0979-01 2007-10-19 Debian DSA-1391-1 2007-10-19 Gentoo 200708-09 2007-08-14 rPath rPSA-2007-0157-1 2007-08-10 Slackware SSA:2007-215-01 2007-08-06 Debian DSA-1346-1 2007-08-04 Debian DSA-1345-1 2007-08-04 Debian DSA-1344-1 2007-08-03 Foresight FLEA-2007-0040-1 2007-08-03 Slackware SSA:2007-213-01 2007-08-02 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:152 2007-08-01 Foresight FLEA-2007-0039-1 2007-08-01 Ubuntu USN-493-1 2007-07-31

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firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3738 CVE-2007-3656 CVE-2007-3670 CVE-2007-3285 CVE-2007-3737 CVE-2007-3089 CVE-2007-3736 CVE-2007-3734 CVE-2007-3735
Created:	July 18, 2007	Updated:	May 12, 2008
Description:	shutdown and moz_bug_r_a4 reported two separate ways to modify an XPCNativeWrapper such that subsequent access by the browser would result in executing user-supplied code. (CVE-2007-3738) Michal Zalewski reported that it was possible to bypass the same-origin checks and read from cached (wyciwyg) documents It is possible to access wyciwyg:// documents without proper same domain policy checks through the use of HTTP 302 redirects. This enables the attacker to steal sensitive data displayed on dynamically generated pages; perform cache poisoning; and execute own code or display own content with URL bar and SSL certificate data of the attacked page (URL spoofing++). (CVE-2007-3656) Internet Explorer calls registered URL protocols without escaping quotes and may be used to pass unexpected and potentially dangerous data to the application that registers that URL Protocol. (CVE-2007-3670) Ronald van den Heetkamp reported that a filename URL containing %00 (encoded null) can cause Firefox to interpret the file extension differently than the underlying Windows operating system potentially leading to unsafe actions such as running a program. This is only accessible locally. (CVE-2007-3285) An attacker can use an element outside of a document to call an event handler allowing content to run arbitrary code with chrome privileges. (CVE-2007-3737) Ronen Zilberman and Michal Zalewski both reported that it was possible to exploit a timing issue to inject content into about:blank frames in a page. When opening a window from a script, it is possible to spoof the content of the newly opened window's frames within a short time frame, while the window is loading. (CVE-2007-3089) Mozilla contributor moz_bug_r_a4 demonstrated that the methods addEventListener and setTimeout could be used to inject script into another site in violation of the browser's same-origin policy. This could be used to access or modify private or valuable information from that other site. (CVE-2007-3736) As part of the Firefox 2.0.0.5 update releases Mozilla developers fixed many bugs to improve the stability of the product. Some of these crashes that showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. Note: Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript, such as large images. (CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735)
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1574-1 2008-05-12 Debian DSA-1534-2 2008-04-24 Debian DSA-1535-1 2008-03-30 Debian DSA-1534-1 2008-03-28 Debian DSA-1532-1 2008-03-27 Mandriva MDVSA-2007:047 2007-02-19 Ubuntu USN-503-1 2007-08-24 Slackware SSA:2007-222-04 2007-08-13 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:049 2007-08-02 Slackware SSA:2007-205-02 2007-07-25 Slackware SSA:2007-205-01 2007-07-25 Foresight FLEA-2007-0033-1 2007-07-24 Debian DSA-1339-1 2007-07-23 Debian DSA-1338-1 2007-07-23 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1181 2007-07-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1180 2007-07-20 Debian DSA-1337-1 2007-07-22 Fedora FEDORA-2007-642 2007-07-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-641 2007-07-20 rPath rPSA-2007-0148-1 2007-07-20 Ubuntu USN-490-1 2007-07-19 Slackware SSA:2007-200-01 2007-07-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1159 2007-07-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1157 2007-07-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1155 2007-07-19 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0724-01 2007-07-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0723-01 2007-07-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0722-01 2007-07-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1143 2007-07-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1144 2007-07-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1142 2007-07-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1138 2007-07-18

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flac123: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	flac123	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3507
Created:	July 13, 2007	Updated:	October 22, 2007
Description:	A stack-based buffer overflow in the local__vcentry_parse_value function in vorbiscomment.c in flac123 (aka flac-tools or flac) before 0.0.10 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large comment value_length.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200709-06 2007-09-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1045 2007-07-12

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freetype: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	freetype	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2754
Created:	May 24, 2007	Updated:	June 1, 2010
Description:	The Freetype font rendering library versions 2.3.4 and below has an integer sign error. Remote attackers may be able to create a specially crafted TrueType Font file with a negative n_points value that will cause an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow, allowing the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Gentoo 201006-01 2010-06-01 Fedora FEDORA-2009-5644 2009-05-28 Fedora FEDORA-2009-5558 2009-05-28 CentOS CESA-2009:0329 2009-05-22 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1062-01 2009-05-22 Red Hat RHSA-2009:0329-02 2009-05-22 Debian DSA-1334 2007-07-18 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:041 2007-07-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-561 2007-06-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:121 2007-06-13 Foresight FLEA-2007-0025-1 2007-06-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0403-01 2007-06-11 Debian DSA-1302-1 2007-06-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0033 2007-06-01 Ubuntu USN-466-1 2007-05-30 Gentoo 200705-22 2007-05-30 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0019 2007-05-25 rPath rPSA-2007-0108-1 2007-05-23 Foresight FLEA-2007-0020-1 2007-05-21 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.018 2007-05-24

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freetype: integer overflows

Package(s):	freetype	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-0747 CVE-2006-1861 CVE-2006-2493 CVE-2006-2661 CVE-2006-3467
Created:	June 8, 2006	Updated:	June 1, 2010
Description:	The FreeType library has several integer overflow vulnerabilities. If a user can be tricked into installing a specially crafted font file, arbitrary code can be executed with the privilege of the user.
Alerts:	Gentoo 201006-01 2010-06-01 Fedora FEDORA-2009-5644 2009-05-28 Fedora FEDORA-2009-5558 2009-05-28 CentOS CESA-2009:0329 2009-05-22 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1062-01 2009-05-22 Red Hat RHSA-2009:0329-02 2009-05-22 Gentoo 200710-09 2007-10-09 Debian DSA-1178-1 2006-09-16 Ubuntu USN-341-1 2006-09-06 Gentoo 200609-04 2006-09-06 rPath rPSA-2006-0157-1 2006-08-25 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:148 2006-08-24 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0635-01 2006-08-21 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0634-01 2006-08-21 Fedora FEDORA-2006-912 2006-08-14 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:045 2006-08-01 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.017 2006-07-28 Ubuntu USN-324-1 2006-07-27 Slackware SSA:2006-207-02 2006-07-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:129 2006-07-20 Gentoo 200607-02 2006-07-09 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:037 2006-06-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:099-1 2006-06-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:099 2006-06-12 rPath rPSA-2006-0100-1 2006-06-12 Debian DSA-1095-1 2006-06-10 Ubuntu USN-291-1 2006-06-08

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gallery2: multiple unspecified vulnerabilities

Package(s):	gallery2	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4650
Created:	September 5, 2007	Updated:	November 9, 2007
Description:	Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Gallery before 2.2.3 allow attackers to (1) rename items, (2) read and modify item properties, or (3) lock and replace items via unknown vectors in (a) the WebDAV module; and (4) edit unspecified data files using "linked items" in (a) WebDAV and (b) Reupload modules.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1404-1 2007-11-08 Gentoo 200711-03 2007-11-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2020 2007-09-04

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gcc: file overwrite vulnerability

Package(s):	gcc	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-3619
Created:	September 6, 2006	Updated:	March 14, 2008
Description:	The fastjar utility found in the GNU compiler collection does not perform adequate file path checking, allowing the creation or overwriting of files outside of the current directory tree.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2008:066 2007-03-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0473-01 2007-06-11 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0220-02 2007-05-01 Debian DSA-1170-1 2006-09-06

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gd: buffer overflow

Package(s):	gd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0455
Created:	February 7, 2007	Updated:	November 18, 2009
Description:	The gd graphics library contains a buffer overflow which could enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note that various other packages include code from gd and could also be vulnerable.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1936-1 2009-11-17 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28 Ubuntu USN-473-1 2007-06-11 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.016 2007-05-18 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0007 2007-02-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-150 2007-02-12 Fedora FEDORA-2007-149 2007-02-12 rPath rPSA-2007-0028-1 2007-02-08 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:038 2006-02-06 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:036 2006-02-06 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:035 2006-02-06

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gd: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	gd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3472 CVE-2007-3473 CVE-2007-3474 CVE-2007-3475 CVE-2007-3476 CVE-2007-3477 CVE-2007-3478
Created:	August 6, 2007	Updated:	November 6, 2009
Description:	Integer overflow in gdImageCreateTrueColor function in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to have unspecified remote attack vectors and impact. (CVE-2007-3472) The gdImageCreateXbm function in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving a gdImageCreate failure. (CVE-2007-3473) Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the GIF reader in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allow user-assisted remote attackers to have unspecified attack vectors and impact. (CVE-2007-3474) The GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a GIF image that has no global color map. (CVE-2007-3475) Array index error in gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and heap corruption) via large color index values in crafted image data, which results in a segmentation fault. (CVE-2007-3476) The (a) imagearc and (b) imagefilledarc functions in GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large (1) start or (2) end angle degree value. (CVE-2007-3477) Race condition in gdImageStringFTEx (gdft_draw_bitmap) in gdft.c in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors, possibly involving truetype font (TTF) support. (CVE-2007-3478)
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-854-1 2009-11-05 Debian DSA-1613-1 2008-07-22 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Fedora FEDORA-2007-692 2007-09-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2055 2007-09-07 Foresight FLEA-2007-0052-1 2007-09-06 rPath rPSA-2007-0176-1 2007-09-05 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0024 2007-08-10 Gentoo 200708-05 2007-08-09 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:153 2007-08-03

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gd: denial of service

Package(s):	gd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2756
Created:	June 14, 2007	Updated:	February 28, 2008
Description:	Libgd2 has a denial of service vulnerability involving the incorrect validation of PNG callback results. If an application that is linked against libgd2 is used to process a specially-crafted PNG file, a denial of service involving CPU resource consumption can be caused.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28 Slackware SSA:2007-178-01 2007-06-27 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:013 2007-06-22 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:124 2007-06-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:123 2007-06-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:122 2007-06-13

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gedit: format string vulnerability

Package(s):	gedit	CVE #(s):	CAN-2005-1686
Created:	June 9, 2005	Updated:	February 5, 2009
Description:	A format string vulnerability has been discovered in gedit. Calling the program with specially crafted file names caused a buffer overflow, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the gedit user.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2009-1189 2009-01-29 Fedora FEDORA-2009-1187 2009-01-29 Debian DSA-753-1 2005-07-12 Mandriva MDKSA-2005:102 2005-06-15 Red Hat RHSA-2005:499-01 2005-06-13 Gentoo 200506-09 2005-06-11 Ubuntu USN-138-1 2005-06-09

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gforge: cross-site scripting

Package(s):	gforge	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3918
Created:	October 5, 2007	Updated:	October 10, 2007
Description:	It was discovered that a cross site scripting vulnerability in GForge, a collaborative development tool, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML in the context of a logged in user's session.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1383-1 2007-10-04

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gimp: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	gimp	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2949
Created:	June 28, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	The gimp image editor has several vulnerabilities, including a problem where it can open PSD files with excessive dimensions and a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0513-01 2007-09-26 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:170 2007-08-23 Slackware SSA:2007-222-01 2007-08-13 Foresight FLEA-2007-0038-1 2007-08-01 Gentoo 200707-09 2007-07-25 Fedora FEDORA-2007-627 2007-07-16 Debian DSA-1335-1 2007-07-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1099 2007-07-16 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1044 2007-07-12 rPath rPSA-2007-0138-1 2007-07-11 Ubuntu USN-480-1 2007-07-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-618 2007-06-27 Fedora FEDORA-2007-619 2007-06-27 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0725 2007-06-27

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openssh: inappropriate use of trusted cookies

Package(s):	gnome-ssh-askpass openssh	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4752
Created:	September 11, 2007	Updated:	August 25, 2008
Description:	OpenSSH in versions prior 4.7 could use a trusted X11 cookie if the creation of an untrusted cookie failed.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2008:0855 2008-08-22 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0855-01 2008-08-22 Debian DSA-1576-1 2008-05-14 Ubuntu USN-566-1 2008-01-09 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:236 2007-12-04 Gentoo 200711-02 2007-11-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-715 2007-10-15 Foresight FLEA-2007-0055-1 2007-09-17 Slackware SSA:2007-255-01 2007-09-13 rPath rPSA-2007-0181-1 2007-09-10

Comments (none posted)

grip: buffer overflow

Package(s):	grip	CVE #(s):	CAN-2005-0706
Created:	March 10, 2005	Updated:	November 19, 2008
Description:	Grip, a CD ripper, has a buffer overflow vulnerability that can occur when the CDDB server returns more than 16 matches.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-9604 2008-11-19 Fedora FEDORA-2008-9521 2008-11-19 Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152919 2005-09-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2005:074 2005-04-20 Mandriva MDKSA-2005:075 2005-04-20 Gentoo 200504-07 2005-04-08 Mandrake MDKSA-2005:066 2005-04-01 Red Hat RHSA-2005:304-01 2005-03-28 Gentoo 200503-21 2005-03-17 Fedora FEDORA-2005-203 2005-03-09 Fedora FEDORA-2005-202 2005-03-09

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gzip: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	gzip	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4334 CVE-2006-4335 CVE-2006-4336 CVE-2006-4337 CVE-2006-4338
Created:	September 19, 2006	Updated:	January 20, 2010
Description:	Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered two denial of service flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to hang or crash. Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several code execution flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to crash or execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1974-1 2010-01-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-557 2007-05-31 Gentoo 200611-24 2006-11-28 Fedora-Legacy FLSA:211760 2006-11-13 Fedora FEDORA-2006-989 2006-10-10 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:056 2006-09-26 Gentoo 200609-13 2006-09-23 Trustix TSLSA-2006-0052 2006-09-22 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:167 2006-09-20 Slackware SSA:2006-262-01 2006-09-20 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.020 2006-09-20 Debian DSA-1181-1 2006-09-19 rPath rPSA-2006-0170-1 2006-09-19 Ubuntu USN-349-1 2006-09-19 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0667-01 2006-09-19

Comments (1 posted)

horde-kronolith: local file inclusion

Package(s):	horde-kronolith	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-6175
Created:	January 17, 2007	Updated:	March 7, 2008
Description:	Kronolith contains a mistake in lib/FBView.php where a raw, unfiltered string is used instead of a sanitized string to view local files. An authenticated attacker could craft an HTTP GET request that uses directory traversal techniques to execute any file on the web server as PHP code, which could allow information disclosure or arbitrary code execution with the rights of the user running the PHP application (usually the webserver user).
Alerts:	Gentoo 200701-11 2007-01-16

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imagemagick: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	imagemagick	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4985 CVE-2007-4986 CVE-2007-4987 CVE-2007-4988
Created:	October 4, 2007	Updated:	August 11, 2009
Description:	The ImageMagick image decoders have multiple vulnerabilities. If a user can be tricked into processing a specially crafted DCM, DIB, XBM, XCF, or XWD image, arbitrary code may be executed with the user's privileges.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1858-1 2009-08-10 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0145-01 2008-04-16 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0165-01 2008-04-16 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:035 2007-02-05 Foresight FLEA-2007-0066-1 2007-11-11 Gentoo 200710-27 2007-10-24 rPath rPSA-2007-0220-1 2007-10-18 Ubuntu USN-523-1 2007-10-03

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ImageMagick: integer overflows

Package(s):	imagemagick	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1797
Created:	April 4, 2007	Updated:	August 11, 2009
Description:	Multiple integer overflows in ImageMagick before 6.3.3-5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted DCM image, which results in a heap-based overflow in the ReadDCMImage function, or (2) the (a) colors or (b) comments field in a crafted XWD image, which results in a heap-based overflow in the ReadXWDImage function, different issues than CVE-2007-1667.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1858-1 2009-08-10 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0165-01 2008-04-16 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0145-01 2008-04-16 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1340 2007-07-30 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:147 2007-07-20 Ubuntu USN-481-1 2007-07-10 Gentoo 200705-13 2007-05-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-414 2007-04-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-413 2007-04-05 rPath rPSA-2007-0064-1 2007-04-04

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jasper: denial of service

Package(s):	jasper	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2721
Created:	June 1, 2007	Updated:	April 19, 2010
Description:	The jpc_qcx_getcompparms function in jpc/jpc_cs.c could allow remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly corrupt the heap via malformed image files.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-2036-1 2010-04-17 Mandriva MDVSA-2009:142-1 2009-12-03 Mandriva MDVSA-2009:164 2009-07-28 Mandriva MDVSA-2009:142 2009-06-26 CentOS CESA-2009:0012 2009-02-11 Red Hat RHSA-2009:0012-01 2009-02-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:209 2007-11-05 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:208 2007-11-05 Ubuntu USN-501-2 2007-10-22 Ubuntu USN-501-1 2007-08-20 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:129 2007-06-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01

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java: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	java	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4339 CVE-2006-4790 CVE-2006-6731 CVE-2006-6736 CVE-2006-6737 CVE-2006-6745
Created:	January 18, 2007	Updated:	June 4, 2010
Description:	java has multiple vulnerabilities, these include: an RSA exponent padding attack vulnerability, two vulnerabilities which allow untrusted applets to access data in other applets, vulnerabilities that involve applets gaining privileges due to serialization bugs in the JRE and buffer overflows in the java image handling routines that can give attackers read/write/execute capabilities for local files.
Alerts:	Pardus 2010-67 2010-06-04 Gentoo 200705-20 2007-05-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0073-01 2007-02-09 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0072-01 2007-02-08 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0062-02 2007-02-07 Gentoo 200701-15 2007-01-22 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:010 2007-01-18

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java-1.5.0-sun: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	java-1.5.0-sun	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3503 CVE-2007-3655 CVE-2007-3698 CVE-2007-3922
Created:	August 6, 2007	Updated:	June 24, 2008
Description:	The Javadoc tool was able to generate HTML documentation pages that contained cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could use this to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. (CVE-2007-3503) The Java Web Start URL parsing component contained a buffer overflow vulnerability within the parsing code for JNLP files. A remote attacker could create a malicious JNLP file that could trigger this flaw and execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2007-3655) The JSSE component did not correctly process SSL/TLS handshake requests. A remote attacker who is able to connect to a JSSE-based service could trigger this flaw leading to a denial-of-service. (CVE-2007-3698) A flaw was found in the applet class loader. An untrusted applet could use this flaw to circumvent network access restrictions, possibly connecting to services hosted on the machine that executed the applet. (CVE-2007-3922)
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0133-01 2008-06-24 SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:025 2008-04-25 Gentoo 200804-20 2008-04-17 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0132-01 2008-02-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1086-01 2007-12-12 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:056 2007-10-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0956-01 2007-10-16 Slackware SSA:2007-243-01 2007-08-31 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0829-01 2007-08-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0818-01 2007-08-06

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JRockit: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	jrockit-jdk-bin	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2788 CVE-2007-4381 CVE-2007-3716 CVE-2007-2789 CVE-2007-3004 CVE-2007-3005 CVE-2007-3503 CVE-2007-3698 CVE-2007-3922
Created:	September 24, 2007	Updated:	June 24, 2008
Description:	An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the embedded ICC profile image parser (CVE-2007-2788), an unspecified vulnerability exists in the font parsing implementation (CVE-2007-4381), and an error exists when processing XSLT stylesheets contained in XSLT Transforms in XML signatures (CVE-2007-3716), among other vulnerabilities.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0133-01 2008-06-24 SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:025 2008-04-25 Gentoo 200804-20 2008-04-17 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0100-01 2008-03-11 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0132-01 2008-02-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1086-01 2007-12-12 Gentoo 200709-15 2007-09-23

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kdebase: kdm passwordless login vulnerability

Package(s):	kdebase kdm	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4569
Created:	September 21, 2007	Updated:	November 13, 2007
Description:	According to this KDE advisory KDM can be tricked into performing a password-less login even for accounts with a password set under certain circumstances, namely autologin to be configured and "shutdown with password" enabled. KDE versions 3.3.0 up to including 3.5.7 are vulnerable.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-15 2007-10-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-716 2007-10-08 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2361 2007-10-03 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:190 2007-09-27 Ubuntu USN-517-1 2007-09-24 Slackware SSA:2007-264-01 2007-09-24 rPath rPSA-2007-0194-1 2007-09-20 Debian DSA-1376 2007-09-21

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kdelibs: kate backup file permission leak

Package(s):	kdelibs kate kwrite	CVE #(s):	CAN-2005-1920
Created:	July 19, 2005	Updated:	September 21, 2010
Description:	Kate / Kwrite, as shipped with KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0, creates a file backup before saving a modified file. These backup files are created with default permissions, even if the original file had more strict permissions set. See this advisory for more information.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200611-21 2006-11-27 Debian DSA-804-2 2005-11-10 Debian DSA-804-1 2005-09-08 Red Hat RHSA-2005:612-01 2005-07-27 Ubuntu USN-150-1 2005-07-21 Mandriva MDKSA-2005:122 2005-07-20 Fedora FEDORA-2005-594 2005-07-19

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1357
Created:	April 16, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The atalk_sum_skb function in AppleTalk for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.21, and possibly 2.4.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an AppleTalk frame that is shorter than the specified length, which triggers a BUG_ON call when an attempt is made to perform a checksum.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14 Ubuntu USN-464-1 2007-05-23 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:030 2007-05-10 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:029 2007-05-03 rPath rPSA-2007-0071-1 2007-04-16 Fedora FEDORA-2007-432 2007-04-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-433 2007-04-13

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4623
Created:	October 18, 2006	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The kernel DVB layer can be caused to crash with maliciously-formatted unidirectional lightweight encapsulation (ULE) data.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19 rPath rPSA-2006-0194-1 2006-10-17

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3642
Created:	July 23, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The decode_choice function in net/netfilter/bf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an encoded, out-of-range index value for a choice field, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-510-1 2007-08-31 Debian DSA-1356-1 2007-08-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-655 2007-08-09 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1130 2007-07-20

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kernel: out-of-bounds access

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4573
Created:	September 25, 2007	Updated:	December 6, 2010
Description:	The IA32 system call emulation functionality in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.22.7, when running on the x86_64 architecture, does not zero extend the eax register after the 32bit entry path to ptrace is used, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %RAX register.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2010:247 2010-12-03 Mandriva MDVSA-2010:188 2010-09-23 Mandriva MDVSA-2010:198 2010-10-07 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:105 2007-05-21 Debian DSA-1504 2008-02-22 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:008 2008-01-11 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:064 2007-12-04 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:195 2007-10-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:196 2007-10-15 Debian DSA-1381-2 2007-10-12 Debian DSA-1381-1 2007-10-02 Debian DSA-1378-2 2007-09-28 Debian DSA-1378-1 2007-09-27 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0938-01 2007-09-27 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0937-01 2007-09-27 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0936-01 2007-09-27 Ubuntu USN-518-1 2007-09-25 rPath rPSA-2007-0198-1 2007-09-24 Fedora FEDORA-2007-712 2007-09-24 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2298 2007-09-25

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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0005 CVE-2007-1000
Created:	March 15, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The Linux kernel has a boundary error problem with the Omnikey CardMan 4040 driver read and write functions. This can be used to cause a buffer overflow and possible execution or arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference. Local users can use this to crash the kernel or to disclose kernel memory.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21 Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19 Ubuntu USN-486-1 2007-07-17 Debian DSA-1286-1 2007-05-02 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0169-01 2007-04-30 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:078 2007-04-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-336 2007-03-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-335 2007-03-14

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-0558 CVE-2007-1217
Created:	September 4, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	A flaw in the ISDN CAPI subsystem could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service or potential remote access. Exploitation would require the attacker to be able to send arbitrary frames over the ISDN network to the victim's machine. A flaw in the perfmon subsystem on ia64 platforms could allow a local user to cause a denial of service.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:0671-01 2007-08-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0673-01 2007-08-08 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0672-01 2007-08-08 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0705-01 2007-09-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0774-01 2007-09-04

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-0007 CVE-2007-0006
Created:	February 15, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	Linux kernel versions from 2.6.9 to 2.6.20 have a denial of service vulnerability. A remote attacker can cause the key_alloc_serial function's key serial number collision avoidance code to have a null dereference, resulting in a crash.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0099-02 2007-03-14 rPath rPSA-2007-0050-1 2007-03-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0085-01 2007-02-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:047 2007-02-21 Fedora FEDORA-2007-226 2007-02-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-225 2007-02-13

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kernel: ALSA returns incorrect write size

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4571
Created:	September 28, 2007	Updated:	June 20, 2008
Description:	The snd_mem_proc_read function in sound/core/memalloc.c in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.8 does not return the correct write size, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents) via a small count argument, as demonstrated by multiple reads of /proc/driver/snd-page-alloc.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-618-1 2008-06-19 Debian DSA-1505 2008-02-22 Debian DSA-1479 2008-01-29 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0993-01 2007-11-29 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0939-01 2007-11-01 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12 Fedora FEDORA-2007-714 2007-10-08 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2349 2007-09-28 rPath rPSA-2007-0202-1 2007-09-27

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4535 CVE-2006-4538
Created:	September 18, 2006	Updated:	January 5, 2009
Description:	Sridhar Samudrala discovered a local denial of service vulnerability in the handling of SCTP sockets. By opening such a socket with a special SO_LINGER value, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4535) Kirill Korotaev discovered that the ELF loader on the ia64 and sparc platforms did not sufficiently verify the memory layout. By attempting to execute a specially crafted executable, a local user could exploit this to crash the kernel. (CVE-2006-4538)
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0787-01 2009-01-05 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1049-01 2007-12-03 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:182 2006-10-11 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0689-01 2006-10-05 Debian DSA-1184-2 2006-09-26 Debian DSA-1184-1 2006-09-25 Debian DSA-1183-1 2006-09-25 Ubuntu USN-347-1 2006-09-18

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1861 CVE-2007-2242
Created:	May 1, 2007	Updated:	February 8, 2008
Description:	The netlink protocol has an infinite recursion bug that allows users to cause a kernel crash. Also the IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers (IPV6_RTHDR_TYPE_0) that create network amplification between two routers.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:006 2008-02-07 Ubuntu USN-508-1 2007-08-31 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:171 2007-08-28 Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19 Ubuntu USN-486-1 2007-07-17 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:051 2007-09-06 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:216 2007-11-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0347-01 2007-05-16 Debian DSA-1289-1 2007-05-13 Foresight FLEA-2007-0016-1 2007-05-08 rPath rPSA-2007-0084-1 2007-05-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-483 2007-05-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-482 2007-05-01

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kernel: denial of service by memory consumption

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-2936
Created:	July 17, 2006	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the driver can handle, which causes the data to be queued.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:151 2006-08-25 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:150 2006-08-25 Ubuntu USN-331-1 2006-08-03 rPath rPSA-2006-0130-1 2006-07-17

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0772
Created:	February 23, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The Linux kernel before 2.6.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) via a crafted NFSACL 2 ACCESS request that triggers a free of an incorrect pointer.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21 Ubuntu USN-451-1 2007-04-10 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:021 2007-03-16 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:060 2006-03-09 Fedora FEDORA-2007-291 2007-03-02 Fedora FEDORA-2007-277 2007-03-02 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:018 2007-02-27 rPath rPSA-2007-0036-1 2007-02-23

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kernel: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1353 CVE-2007-2451 CVE-2007-2453
Created:	June 11, 2007	Updated:	March 6, 2008
Description:	Ilja van Sprundel discovered that Bluetooth setsockopt calls could leak kernel memory contents via an uninitialized stack buffer. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to view sensitive kernel information. (CVE-2007-1353) The GEODE-AES driver did not correctly initialize its encryption key. Any data encrypted using this type of device would be easily compromised. (CVE-2007-2451) The random number generator was hashing a subset of the available entropy, leading to slightly less random numbers. Additionally, systems without an entropy source would be seeded with the same inputs at boot time, leading to a repeatable series of random numbers. (CVE-2007-2453)
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1504 2008-02-22 Debian DSA-1503-2 2008-03-06 Debian DSA-1503 2008-02-22 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0488-01 2007-06-25 Debian DSA-1356-1 2007-08-15 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:051 2007-09-06 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:216 2007-11-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:171 2007-08-28 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0671-01 2007-08-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0673-01 2007-08-08 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0672-01 2007-08-08 Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19 Ubuntu USN-486-1 2007-07-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-600 2007-06-25 Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0376-01 2007-06-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0409 2007-06-13 Ubuntu USN-470-1 2007-06-08

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kernel: signal handling flaw on PPC

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3107
Created:	July 10, 2007	Updated:	February 4, 2008
Description:	A flaw in the signal handling on PowerPC-based systems that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (floating point corruption).
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-574-1 2008-02-04 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:051 2007-09-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0595-01 2007-07-10

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kernel: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-5823 CVE-2006-6054 CVE-2007-1592
Created:	June 12, 2007	Updated:	March 21, 2011
Description:	A flaw in the cramfs file system allows invalid compressed data to cause memory corruption (CVE-2006-5823) A flaw in the ext2 file system allows an invalid inode size to cause a denial of service (system hang) (CVE-2006-6054) A flaw in IPV6 flow label handling allows a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2007-1592)
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2011:051 2011-03-18 Debian DSA-1503-2 2008-03-06 Debian DSA-1504 2008-02-22 Debian DSA-1503 2008-02-22 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0673-01 2007-08-08 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0672-01 2007-08-08 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0347-01 2007-05-16 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:043 2007-07-09 Debian DSA-1304-1 2007-06-16 rPath rPSA-2007-0124-1 2007-06-14 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0436-01 2007-06-11

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-5757
Created:	November 13, 2006	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	From the MOKB-05-11-2006 advisory: "The ISO9660 filesystem handling code of the Linux 2.6.x kernel fails to properly handle corrupted data structures, leading to an exploitable denial of service condition. This particular vulnerability seems to be caused by a race condition and a signedness issue. When performing a read operation on a corrupted ISO9660 fs stream, the isofs_get_blocks() function will enter an infinite loop when __find_get_block_slow() callback from sb_getblk() fails ("due to various races between file io on the block device and getblk")."
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-599 2007-06-21 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1223 2006-11-12 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1221 2006-11-10

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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-2935 CVE-2006-4145 CVE-2006-3745
Created:	September 1, 2006	Updated:	July 30, 2008
Description:	Previous versions of the kernel package are subject to several vulnerabilities. Certain malformed UDF filesystems can cause the system to crash (denial of service). Malformed CDROM firmware or USB storage devices (such as USB keys) could cause system crash (denial of service), and if they were intentionally malformed, can cause arbitrary code to run with elevated privileges. In addition, the SCTP protocol is subject to a remote system crash (denial of service) attack.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0665-01 2008-07-24 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:064 2006-11-10 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0710-01 2006-10-19 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:057 2006-09-28 Trustix TSLSA-2006-0051 2006-09-15 Ubuntu USN-346-2 2006-09-14 Ubuntu USN-346-1 2006-09-14 rPath rPSA-2006-0162-1 2006-08-31

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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-5749 CVE-2006-4814 CVE-2006-6106
Created:	January 5, 2007	Updated:	January 8, 2009
Description:	A security issue has been reported in Linux kernel due to an error in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c as the "isdn_ppp_ccp_reset_alloc_state()" function never initializes an event timer before scheduling it with the "add_timer()" function. The mincore function in the kernel does not properly lock access to user space, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors, possibly related to a deadlock. Another vulnerability has been reported in Linux kernel caused by a boundary error within the handling of incoming CAPI messages in net/bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c. This can be exploited to overwrite certain Kernel data structures.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0787-01 2009-01-05 Red Hat RHSA-2009:0001-01 2009-01-08 CentOS CESA-2008:0211 2008-05-07 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0211-01 2008-05-07 Debian DSA-1503 2008-02-22 Debian DSA-1503-2 2008-03-06 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:035 2007-06-14 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12 Ubuntu USN-416-2 2007-03-01 Ubuntu USN-416-1 2007-02-01 rPath rPSA-2007-0031-1 2007-02-09 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:040 2007-02-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0014-01 2007-01-30 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:025 2007-01-23 Fedora FEDORA-2007-058 2007-01-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:012 2006-01-12 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0002 2007-01-05

Comments (none posted)

kernel: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):	kernel	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3851 CVE-2007-3848 CVE-2007-3105
Created:	August 17, 2007	Updated:	January 8, 2009
Description:	The drm/i915 component in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.2, when used with i965G and later chipsets, allows local users with access to an X11 session and Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) to write to arbitrary memory locations and gain privileges via a crafted batchbuffer. (CVE-2007-3851) Linux kernel 2.4.35 and other versions allows local users to send arbitrary signals to a child process that is running at higher privileges by causing a setuid-root parent process to die, which delivers an attacker-controlled parent process death signal (PR_SET_PDEATHSIG). (CVE-2007-3848) Stack-based buffer overflow in the random number generator (RNG) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22 might allow local root users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges by setting the default wakeup threshold to a value greater than the output pool size, which triggers writing random numbers to the stack by the pool transfer function involving "bound check ordering". NOTE: this issue might only cross privilege boundaries in environments that have granular assignment of privileges for root. (CVE-2007-3105)
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0787-01 2009-01-05 Red Hat RHSA-2009:0001-01 2009-01-08 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:105 2007-05-21 SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:017 2008-03-28 Debian DSA-1504 2008-02-22 Debian DSA-1503-2 2008-03-06 Debian DSA-1503 2008-02-22 SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:006 2008-02-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1049-01 2007-12-03 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:053 2007-10-12 Debian DSA-1356-1 2007-08-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:216 2007-11-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0939-01 2007-11-01 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0940-01 2007-10-22 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0705-01 2007-09-13 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:051 2007-09-06 Fedora FEDORA-2007-679 2007-09-04 Ubuntu USN-510-1 2007-08-31 Debian DSA-1363-1 2007-08-31 Ubuntu USN-508-1 2007-08-31 Ubuntu USN-509-1 2007-08-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1785 2007-08-23 rPath rPSA-2007-0164-1 2007-08-16

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krb5: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	krb5	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2442 CVE-2007-2443 CVE-2007-2798
Created:	June 27, 2007	Updated:	March 24, 2008
Description:	David Coffey discovered an uninitialized pointer free flaw in the RPC library used by kadmind. A remote unauthenticated attacker who could access kadmind could trigger the flaw causing kadmind to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-2442). David Coffey also discovered an overflow flaw in the same RPC library. A remote unauthenticated attacker who could access kadmind could trigger the flaw causing kadmind to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-2443). Finally, a stack buffer overflow vulnerability was found in kadmind that allowed an unauthenticated user able to access kadmind the ability to trigger the vulnerability and possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-2798).
Alerts:	Gentoo 200707-11 2007-07-25 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:038 2007-07-03 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0021 2007-06-29 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0740 2007-06-27 Debian DSA-1323-1 2007-06-28 rPath rPSA-2007-0135-1 2007-06-27 Foresight FLEA-2007-0029-1 2007-06-27 Fedora FEDORA-2007-621 2007-06-28 Fedora FEDORA-2007-620 2007-06-28 Ubuntu USN-477-1 2007-06-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0562-01 2007-06-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0384-01 2007-06-26 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:137 2007-06-26

Comments (none posted)

krb5: uninitialized pointers

Package(s):	krb5	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-6143 CVE-2006-3084
Created:	January 10, 2007	Updated:	July 7, 2010
Description:	The kdamind daemon can, in some situations, perform operations on uninitialized pointers. This bug could conceivably open up the system to a code execution attack by an unauthenticated remote attacker, but it appears to be difficult to exploit. See this advisory for details.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2010:129 2010-07-07 Gentoo 200701-21 2007-01-24 Ubuntu USN-408-1 2007-01-15 rPath rPSA-2007-0006-1 2007-01-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:008 2006-01-10 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:004 2007-01-10 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.006 2007-01-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-033 2007-01-09 Fedora FEDORA-2007-034 2007-01-09

Comments (1 posted)

krb5: local privilege escalation

Package(s):	krb5	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-3083
Created:	August 9, 2006	Updated:	July 7, 2010
Description:	Some kerberos applications fail to check the results of setuid() calls, with the result that, if that call fails, they could continue to execute as root after thinking they had switched to a nonprivileged user. A local attacker who can cause these calls to fail (through resource exhaustion, presumably) could exploit this bug to gain root privileges.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2010:129 2010-07-07 SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:022 2006-09-08 Gentoo 200608-21 2006-08-23 Ubuntu USN-334-1 2006-08-16 Fedora FEDORA-2006-905 2006-08-09 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:139 2006-09-09 Gentoo 200608-15 2006-08-10 rPath rPSA-2006-0150-1 2006-08-09 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0612-01 2006-08-08 Debian DSA-1146-1 2006-08-09

Comments (none posted)

krb5: buffer overflow, uninitialized pointer

Package(s):	krb5	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3999 CVE-2007-4000
Created:	September 4, 2007	Updated:	March 24, 2008
Description:	Tenable Network Security discovered a stack buffer overflow flaw in the RPC library used by kadmind. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can access kadmind could trigger this flaw and cause kadmind to crash. Garrett Wollman discovered an uninitialized pointer flaw in kadmind. A remote unauthenticated attacker who can access kadmind could trigger this flaw and cause kadmind to crash.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-1017 2008-03-06 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:024 2007-11-22 Debian DSA-1387 2007-10-15 Gentoo 200710-01 2007-10-04 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0951-01 2007-10-02 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0913-01 2007-09-19 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0026 2007-09-17 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:181 2007-09-12 Gentoo 200709-01 2007-09-11 Ubuntu USN-511-2 2007-09-07 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:174-1 2007-09-07 Fedora FEDORA-2007-694 2007-09-07 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2066 2007-09-07 Debian DSA-1367-2 2007-09-06 Foresight FLEA-2007-0050-1 2007-09-06 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:174 2007-09-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0892-01 2007-09-07 rPath rPSA-2007-0179-1 2007-09-06 Ubuntu USN-511-1 2007-09-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2017 2007-09-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-690 2007-09-04 Debian DSA-1368-1 2007-09-04 Debian DSA-1367-1 2007-09-04 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0858-01 2007-09-04

Comments (none posted)

krb5: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	krb5	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0956 CVE-2007-0957 CVE-2007-1216
Created:	April 3, 2007	Updated:	March 24, 2008
Description:	A flaw was found in the username handling of the MIT krb5 telnet daemon (telnetd). A remote attacker who can access the telnet port of a target machine could log in as root without requiring a password. MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2007-001 Buffer overflows were found which affect the Kerberos KDC and the kadmin server daemon. A remote attacker who can access the KDC could exploit this bug to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the KDC or kadmin server processes. MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2007-002 A double-free flaw was found in the GSSAPI library used by the kadmin server daemon. MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2007-003
Alerts:	Mandriva MDKSA-2007:077-1 2007-04-10 Foresight FLEA-2007-0008-1 2007-04-05 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:025 2007-04-05 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:077 2006-04-04 rPath rPSA-2007-0063-1 2007-04-04 Ubuntu USN-449-1 2007-04-04 Gentoo 200704-02 2007-04-03 Fedora FEDORA-2007-409 2007-04-03 Fedora FEDORA-2007-408 2007-04-03 Debian DSA-1276-1 2007-04-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0095-01 2007-04-03

Comments (none posted)

ktorrent: incorrect validation

Package(s):	ktorrent	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1384 CVE-2007-1385 CVE-2007-1799
Created:	March 13, 2007	Updated:	October 24, 2007
Description:	Bryan Burns of Juniper Networks discovered that KTorrent did not correctly validate the destination file paths nor the HAVE statements sent by torrent peers. A malicious remote peer could send specially crafted messages to overwrite files or execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1373-2 2007-10-23 Debian DSA-1373-1 2007-09-11 Ubuntu USN-436-2 2007-05-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:095 2007-05-01 Gentoo 200705-01 2007-05-01 Slackware SSA:2007-093-02 2007-04-04 Ubuntu USN-436-1 2007-03-12

Comments (1 posted)

kvirc: remote arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	kvirc	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2951
Created:	September 14, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research discovered that the "parseIrcUrl()" function in file src/kvirc/kernel/kvi_ircurl.cpp does not properly sanitize parts of the URI when building the command for KVIrc's internal script system.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Gentoo 200709-02 2007-09-13

Comments (none posted)

lftp: shell command execution

Package(s):	lftp	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2348
Created:	May 4, 2007	Updated:	September 16, 2009
Description:	mirror --script in lftp before 3.5.9 does not properly quote shell metacharacters, which might allow remote user-assisted attackers to execute shell commands via a malicious script. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses security boundaries, since the script already supports commands such as "get" which could overwrite executable files.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2009:1278 2009-09-15 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1278-02 2009-09-02 rPath rPSA-2007-0085-1 2007-05-03

Comments (none posted)

libarchive: pax extension header vulnerabilities

Package(s):	libarchive	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3641 CVE-2007-3644 CVE-2007-3645
Created:	August 9, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	libarchive, a library for manipulating different streaming archive formats, has a number of pax extension header vulnerabilities. These may be used to cause a denial of service or for the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Debian DSA-1455-1 2008-01-08 Gentoo 200708-03 2007-08-08

Comments (none posted)

libexif: integer overflow

Package(s):	libexif	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2645
Created:	June 1, 2007	Updated:	February 11, 2008
Description:	Integer overflow in the exif_data_load_data_entry function in exif-data.c in libexif before 0.6.14 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted EXIF data, involving the (1) doff or (2) s variable.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1487-1 2008-02-08 Slackware SSA:2007-164-01 2007-06-14 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0414 2007-06-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-548 2007-06-11 Ubuntu USN-471-1 2007-06-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:118 2007-06-08 Gentoo 200706-01 2007-06-05 rPath rPSA-2007-0115-1 2007-06-04 Foresight FLEA-2007-0024-1 2007-06-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01

Comments (none posted)

libmodplug: boundary errors

Package(s):	libmodplug	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4192
Created:	December 11, 2006	Updated:	May 4, 2011
Description:	Luigi Auriemma has reported various boundary errors in load_it.cpp and a boundary error in the "CSoundFile::ReadSample()" function in sndfile.cpp. A remote attacker can entice a user to read crafted modules or ITP files, which may trigger a buffer overflow resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2011:0477 2011-05-04 Red Hat RHSA-2011:0477-01 2011-05-02 Ubuntu USN-521-1 2007-09-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:001 2007-01-02 Gentoo 200612-04 2006-12-10

Comments (none posted)

libphp-phpmailer: command execution

Package(s):	libphp-phpmailer	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3215
Created:	June 20, 2007	Updated:	June 25, 2009
Description:	libphp-phpmailer does not do sufficient input validation, enabling shell command injection attacks.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-791-1 2009-06-24 Debian DSA-1315-1 2007-06-19

Comments (none posted)

libpng: denial of service

Package(s):	libpng	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2445
Created:	May 17, 2007	Updated:	March 23, 2009
Description:	Libpng can be crashed when processing malformed PNG files. It may also be possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1750-1 2009-03-22 Debian DSA-1613-1 2008-07-22 Fedora FEDORA-2008-3979 2008-05-28 Ubuntu USN-472-1 2007-06-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:116 2007-06-05 Gentoo 200705-24 2007-05-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0001 2007-06-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-529 2007-05-24 Fedora FEDORA-2007-528 2007-05-24 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0356-01 2007-05-17 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.013 2007-05-18 Foresight FLEA-2007-0018-1 2007-05-17 Slackware SSA:2007-136-01 2007-05-17 rPath rPSA-2007-0102-1 2007-05-16

Comments (none posted)

libpng: buffer overflow

Package(s):	libpng	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-3334
Created:	July 19, 2006	Updated:	December 15, 2008
Description:	In pngrutil.c, the function png_decompress_chunk() allocates insufficient space for an error message, potentially overwriting stack data, leading to a buffer overflow.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200812-15 2008-12-14 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:213 2006-11-16 rPath rPSA-2006-0133-1 2006-07-19 Gentoo 200607-06 2006-07-19

Comments (none posted)

libpng: heap based buffer overflow

Package(s):	libpng	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-0481
Created:	February 13, 2006	Updated:	December 15, 2008
Description:	A heap based buffer overflow bug was found in the way libpng strips alpha channels from a PNG image. An attacker could create a carefully crafted PNG image file in such a way that it could cause an application linked with libpng to crash or execute arbitrary code when the file is opened by a victim.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200812-15 2008-12-14 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0205-01 2006-02-13

Comments (1 posted)

libsndfile: heap-based buffer overflow

Package(s):	libsndfile	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4974
Created:	September 25, 2007	Updated:	January 9, 2008
Description:	Heap-based buffer overflow in libsndfile 1.0.17 and earlier might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a FLAC file with crafted PCM data containing a block with a size that exceeds the previous block size.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:001 2008-01-09 Debian DSA-1442-1 2007-12-29 Gentoo 200710-04 2007-10-07 Ubuntu USN-525-1 2007-10-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:191 2007-10-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2236 2007-09-24

Comments (none posted)

libtiff: buffer overflow

Package(s):	libtiff	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-2193
Created:	June 15, 2006	Updated:	September 1, 2008
Description:	The t2p_write_pdf_string function in libtiff 3.8.2 and earlier is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. Attackers can use a TIFF file with UTF-8 characters in the DocumentName tag to overflow a buffer, causing a denial of service, and possibly the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2008:0848 2008-08-30 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0848-01 2008-08-28 Fedora FEDORA-2006-952 2006-09-05 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:044 2006-08-01 Gentoo 200607-03 2006-07-09 SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:014 2006-06-20 Trustix TSLSA-2006-0036 2006-06-16 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:102 2006-06-14

Comments (none posted)

libvorbis: multiple memory corruption flaws

Package(s):	libvorbis	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3106 CVE-2007-4029
Created:	July 27, 2007	Updated:	January 22, 2008
Description:	This iSEC Partners security advisory has details on multiple memory corruption flaws in libvorbis.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1471-1 2008-01-21 Gentoo 200710-03 2007-10-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0845-02 2007-09-19 Fedora FEDORA-2007-677 2007-08-30 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1765 2007-08-23 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:167-1 2007-08-20 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:167 2007-08-18 Ubuntu USN-498-1 2007-08-16 Foresight FLEA-2007-0035-1 2007-07-27 rPath rPSA-2007-0150-1 2007-07-27

Comments (none posted)

libxml2 - arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	libxml2	CVE #(s):	CAN-2004-0110
Created:	February 26, 2004	Updated:	August 19, 2009
Description:	Yuuichi Teranishi discovered a flaw in libxml2 versions prior to 2.6.6. When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, libxml2 uses special parsing routines. These routines can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. If an attacker is able to find an application using libxml2 that parses remote resources and allows them to influence the URL, then this flaw could be used to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2009-8594 2009-08-15 Fedora FEDORA-2009-8582 2009-08-15 Fedora-Legacy FLSA:1324 2004-07-19 Conectiva CLA-2004:836 2004-03-31 Gentoo 200403-01 2004-03-06 Trustix TSLSA-2004-0010 2004-03-05 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.003 2004-03-05 Netwosix NW-2004-0004 2004-03-04 Debian DSA-455-1 2004-03-03 Mandrake MDKSA-2004:018 2004-03-03 Red Hat RHSA-2004:091-02 2004-03-03 Whitebox WBSA-2004:090-01 2004-03-01 Red Hat RHSA-2004:090-01 2004-02-26 Fedora FEDORA-2004-087 2004-02-25 Red Hat RHSA-2004:091-01 2004-02-26

Comments (none posted)

libxml2: multiple buffer overflows

Package(s):	libxml2	CVE #(s):	CAN-2004-0989
Created:	October 28, 2004	Updated:	August 19, 2009
Description:	libxml2 prior to version 2.6.14 has multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities, if a local user passes a specially crafted FTP URL, arbitrary code may be executed.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2009-8594 2009-08-15 Fedora FEDORA-2009-8582 2009-08-15 Ubuntu USN-89-1 2005-02-28 Red Hat RHSA-2004:650-01 2004-12-16 Conectiva CLA-2004:890 2004-11-18 Red Hat RHSA-2004:615-01 2004-11-12 Mandrake MDKSA-2004:127 2004-11-04 Debian DSA-582-1 2004-11-02 Gentoo 200411-05 2004-11-02 Trustix TSLSA-2004-0055 2004-10-29 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2004.050 2004-10-31 Ubuntu USN-10-1 2004-10-28 Fedora FEDORA-2004-353 2004-10-28

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lighttpd: denial of service

Package(s):	lighttpd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3946 CVE-2007-3947 CVE-2007-3948 CVE-2007-3949 CVE-2007-3950
Created:	July 19, 2007	Updated:	July 15, 2008
Description:	The lighttpd web server has multiple vulnerabilities involving a remote access-control setting circumvention that is performed by the sending of malformed requests. This can be used to crash the server and cause a denial of service.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1609-1 2008-07-15 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Debian DSA-1362 2007-08-29 Gentoo 200708-11 2007-08-16 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1299 2007-07-26 Foresight FLEA-2007-0034-1 2007-07-26 rPath rPSA-2007-0145-1 2007-07-19

Comments (none posted)

lookup-el: insecure temporary file

Package(s):	lookup-el	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0237
Created:	March 19, 2007	Updated:	December 10, 2007
Description:	Tatsuya Kinoshita discovered that Lookup, a search interface to electronic dictionaries on emacsen, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion when the ndeb-binary feature is used, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200712-07 2007-12-09 Debian DSA-1269-1 2007-03-18

Comments (none posted)

lynx: arbitrary command execution

Package(s):	lynx	CVE #(s):	CVE-2005-2929
Created:	November 14, 2005	Updated:	September 14, 2009
Description:	An arbitrary command execute bug was found in the lynx "lynxcgi:" URI handler. An attacker could create a web page redirecting to a malicious URL which could execute arbitrary code as the user running lynx.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200909-15 2009-09-12 Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152832 2005-12-17 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2005.026 2005-12-03 Fedora FEDORA-2005-1079 2005-11-14 Fedora FEDORA-2005-1078 2005-11-14 Gentoo 200511-09 2005-11-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2005:211 2005-11-12 Red Hat RHSA-2005:839-01 2005-11-11

Comments (none posted)

mapserver: multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Package(s):	mapserver	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4542 CVE-2007-4629
Created:	September 5, 2007	Updated:	April 7, 2008
Description:	CVE-2007-4542: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MapServer before 4.10.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors involving the (1) processLine function in maptemplate.c and the (2) writeError function in mapserv.c in the mapserv CGI program. CVE-2007-4629: Buffer overflow in the processLine function in maptemplate.c in MapServer before 4.10.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a mapfile with a long layer name, group name, or metadata entry name.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1539-1 2008-04-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2018 2007-09-04

Comments (none posted)

mod_jk: proxy bypass

Package(s):	mod_jk	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1860
Created:	May 30, 2007	Updated:	March 7, 2008
Description:	From the Red Hat advisory: "Versions of mod_jk before 1.2.23 decoded request URLs by default inside Apache httpd and forwarded the encoded URL to Tomcat, which itself did a second decoding. If Tomcat was used behind mod_jk and configured to only proxy some contexts, an attacker could construct a carefully crafted HTTP request to work around the context restriction and potentially access non-proxied content."
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:005 2008-03-06 Gentoo 200708-15 2007-08-19 Debian DSA-1312-1 2007-06-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0380-01 2007-05-30 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0379-01 2007-05-30

Comments (none posted)

moin: arbitrary JavaScript execution

Package(s):	moin	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2423
Created:	May 8, 2007	Updated:	March 10, 2008
Description:	A flaw was discovered in MoinMoin's error reporting when using the AttachFile action. By tricking a user into viewing a crafted MoinMoin URL, an attacker could execute arbitrary JavaScript as the current MoinMoin user, possibly exposing the user's authentication information for the domain where MoinMoin was hosted.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1514-1 2008-03-09 Ubuntu USN-458-1 2007-05-07

Comments (none posted)

moodle: cross-site scripting

Package(s):	moodle	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3555
Created:	August 7, 2007	Updated:	December 22, 2008
Description:	A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in Moodle 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a style expression in the search parameter.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1691-1 2008-12-22 Fedora FEDORA-2008-0610 2008-01-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1445 2007-08-06

Comments (none posted)

mplayer: buffer overflow

Package(s):	mplayer	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1246
Created:	March 8, 2007	Updated:	April 1, 2008
Description:	MPlayer versions up to 1.0rc1 have a buffer overflow in the loader/dmo/DMO_VideoDecoder.c DMO_VideoDecoder_Open function. user-assisted remote attackers can use this to create a buffer overflow and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1536-1 2008-03-31 Gentoo 200705-21 2007-05-30 Foresight FLEA-2007-0013-1 2007-04-23 Slackware SSA:2007-109-02 2007-04-20 Gentoo 200704-09 2007-04-14 Ubuntu USN-433-1 2007-03-09 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:057 2007-03-08 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:055 2007-03-08

Comments (none posted)

mydns: buffer overflows

Package(s):	mydns	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2362
Created:	May 23, 2007	Updated:	December 17, 2007
Description:	Multiple buffer overflows in MyDNS allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1434-1 2007-12-16 Debian-Testing DTSA-36-1 2007-05-22

Comments (none posted)

mysql: denial of service

Package(s):	mysql	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1420
Created:	March 22, 2007	Updated:	May 21, 2008
Description:	MySQL subselect queries using "ORDER BY" can be used by an attacker with access to a MySQL instance in order to create an intermittent denial of service.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0364-01 2008-05-21 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:139 2007-07-04 rPath rPSA-2007-0107-1 2007-05-23 Gentoo 200705-11 2007-05-08 Ubuntu USN-440-1 2007-03-21

Comments (none posted)

mysql: format string bug

Package(s):	mysql	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-3469
Created:	July 21, 2006	Updated:	July 30, 2008
Description:	Jean-David Maillefer discovered a format string bug in the date_format() function's error reporting. By calling the function with invalid arguments, an authenticated user could exploit this to crash the server.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0768-01 2008-07-24 Slackware SSA:2006-211-01 2006-07-31 Ubuntu USN-321-1 2006-07-21

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: privilege violations

Package(s):	mysql	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4031 CVE-2006-4226
Created:	August 25, 2006	Updated:	July 30, 2008
Description:	MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21 and 5.0 before 5.0.24 allows a local user to access a table through a previously created MERGE table, even after the user's privileges are revoked for the original table, which might violate intended security policy (CVE-2006-4031). MySQL 4.1 before 4.1.21, 5.0 before 5.0.25, and 5.1 before 5.1.12, when run on case-sensitive filesystems, allows remote authenticated users to create or access a database when the database name differs only in case from a database for which they have permissions (CVE-2006-4226).
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0768-01 2008-07-24 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0364-01 2008-05-21 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0152-01 2007-04-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0083-01 2007-02-19 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1298 2006-11-27 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1297 2006-11-27 Ubuntu USN-338-1 2006-09-05 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:149 2006-08-24

Comments (none posted)

mysql: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	mysql	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3780
Created:	July 17, 2007	Updated:	November 27, 2007
Description:	MySQL Community Server before v5.0.45 has multiple vulnerabilities. See the MySQL Community Server 5.0.45 release announcement for details.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1413-1 2007-11-26 Ubuntu USN-528-1 2007-10-11 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0894-01 2007-09-10 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:177 2007-09-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0875-01 2007-08-30 Gentoo 200708-10 2007-08-16 rPath rPSA-2007-0143-1 2007-07-17

Comments (none posted)

MySQL: logging bypass

Package(s):	mysql	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-0903
Created:	April 4, 2006	Updated:	May 21, 2008
Description:	MySQL 5.0.18 and earlier allows local users to bypass logging mechanisms via SQL queries that contain the NULL character, which are not properly handled by the mysql_real_query function. NOTE: this issue was originally reported for the mysql_query function, but the vendor states that since mysql_query expects a null character, this is not an issue for mysql_query.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0364-01 2008-05-21 Ubuntu USN-274-2 2006-05-15 Ubuntu USN-274-1 2006-04-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:064 2006-04-03

Comments (2 posted)

nbd: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	nbd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2005-3534
Created:	January 6, 2006	Updated:	March 7, 2011
Description:	Kurt Fitzner discovered that the NBD (network block device) server did not correctly verify the maximum size of request packets. By sending specially crafted large request packets, a remote attacker who is allowed to access the server could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:001 2006-01-13 Ubuntu USN-237-1 2006-01-06

Comments (none posted)

nginx: cross site scripting

Package(s):	nginx	CVE #(s):
Created:	July 20, 2007	Updated:	September 14, 2009
Description:	Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. The "msie_refresh" directive could allow cross site scripting.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-1158 2007-07-19

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opal: denial of service

Package(s):	opal	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4924
Created:	October 8, 2007	Updated:	January 9, 2008
Description:	From the Red Hat advisory: A flaw was discovered in the way opal handled certain Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) packets. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with opal. (CVE-2007-4924)
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-562-1 2008-01-08 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:205 2007-11-02 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0957-01 2007-10-08

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OpenOffice.org: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	openoffice.org	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0245
Created:	June 13, 2007	Updated:	June 12, 2008
Description:	A specially crafted RTF file could cause the filter to overwrite data on the heap, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-5239 2008-06-11 Fedora FEDORA-2008-4104 2008-05-17 rPath rPSA-2007-0160-1 2007-08-14 Ubuntu USN-482-1 2007-07-10 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:144 2007-07-10 Gentoo 200707-02 2007-07-02 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:037 2007-06-28 Fedora FEDORA-2007-606 2007-06-25 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0410 2007-06-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-572 2007-06-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0406-01 2007-06-13 Debian DSA-1307-1 2007-06-12

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openoffice.org: arbitrary code execution via TIFF images

Package(s):	openoffice.org	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2834
Created:	September 17, 2007	Updated:	June 12, 2008
Description:	A heap overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the TIFF parsing code of the OpenOffice.org suite. The parser uses untrusted values from the TIFF file to calculate the number of bytes of memory to allocate. A specially crafted TIFF image could trigger an integer overflow and subsequently a buffer overflow that could cause the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-5239 2008-06-11 Fedora FEDORA-2008-4104 2008-05-17 Gentoo 200710-24 2007-10-23 Ubuntu USN-524-1 2007-10-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2372 2007-10-03 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:052 2007-09-21 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:186 2007-09-17 rPath rPSA-2007-0189-1 2007-09-18 Foresight FLEA-2007-0056-1 2007-09-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-700 2007-09-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0848-01 2007-09-18 Debian DSA-1375-1 2007-09-17

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OpenSSH: denial of service

Package(s):	openssh	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4925 CVE-2006-5052
Created:	October 6, 2006	Updated:	November 15, 2007
Description:	packet.c in ssh in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an invalid protocol sequence with USERAUTH_SUCCESS before NEWKEYS, which causes newkeys[mode] to be NULL. An unspecified vulnerability in portable OpenSSH before 4.4, when running on some platforms, allows remote attackers to determine the validity of usernames via unknown vectors involving a GSSAPI "authentication abort."
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:0703-02 2007-11-15 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0540-04 2007-11-07 Fedora FEDORA-2007-394 2007-04-03 Gentoo 200611-06 2006-11-13 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:062 2006-10-20 rPath rPSA-2006-0185-1 2006-10-05

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openssh: remote denial of service

Package(s):	openssh	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4924 CVE-2006-5051
Created:	September 27, 2006	Updated:	September 17, 2008
Description:	Openssh 4.4 fixes some security issues, including a pre-authentication denial of service, an unsafe signal hander and on portable OpenSSH a GSSAPI authentication abort could be used to determine the validity of usernames on some platforms.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1638-1 2008-09-16 Debian DSA-1212-1 2006-11-15 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1011 2006-10-03 Debian DSA-1189-1 2006-10-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:179 2006-10-03 Ubuntu USN-355-1 2006-10-02 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.022 2006-10-01 Slackware SSA:2006-272-02 2006-09-29 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0698-01 2006-09-28 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0697-01 2006-09-28 Gentoo 200609-17:02 2006-09-27 rPath rPSA-2006-0174-1 2006-09-27 Gentoo 200609-17 2006-09-27

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openssl: off-by-one error

Package(s):	openssl	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5135
Created:	October 3, 2007	Updated:	July 31, 2008
Description:	From the Debian advisory: An off-by-one error has been identified in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers() routine in the libssl library from OpenSSL, an implementation of Secure Socket Layer cryptographic libraries and utilities. This error could allow an attacker to crash an application making use of OpenSSL's libssl library, or potentially execute arbitrary code in the security context of the user running such an application.
Alerts:	rPath rPSA-2008-0241-1 2008-07-30 SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:005 2008-03-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1003-02 2007-11-15 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0813-01 2007-10-22 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2530 2007-10-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-725 2007-10-15 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:020 2007-10-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0964-01 2007-10-12 Debian DSA-1379-2 2007-10-10 Gentoo 200710-06 2007-10-07 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:193 2007-10-04 rPath rPSA-2007-0206-1 2007-10-03 Foresight FLEA-2007-0058-1 2007-10-03 Debian DSA-1379 2007-10-02

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openssl: private key attack

Package(s):	openssl	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3108
Created:	August 7, 2007	Updated:	May 13, 2008
Description:	OpenSSL could allow a local user in certain circumstances to divulge information about private keys being used.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1571-1 2008-05-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1003-02 2007-11-15 Ubuntu USN-522-1 2007-09-29 rPath rPSA-2007-0199-1 2007-09-25 Fedora FEDORA-2007-661 2007-08-13 Foresight FLEA-2007-0043-1 2007-08-13 rPath rPSA-2007-0155-1 2007-08-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1444 2007-08-06

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opera: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	opera	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4367 CVE-2007-3929 CVE-2007-3142 CVE-2007-3819
Created:	August 23, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	The Opera browser has multiple vulnerabilities. The JavaScript engine is vulnerable to a virtual function call on an invalid pointer that can be triggered by specially crafted JavaScript. A freed pointer in the BitTorrent support may be accessed, this can be used for malicious code execution. The browser is vulnerable to several memory read protection errors. There are URI display errors that can be used to trick users into visiting arbitrary web sites.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:050 2007-08-30 Gentoo 200708-17 2007-08-22

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pam: privilege escalation

Package(s):	pam	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1716
Created:	June 12, 2007	Updated:	November 15, 2007
Description:	A flaw was found in the way pam_console set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to an unauthorized user.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:0737-02 2007-11-15 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0555-04 2007-11-07 Fedora FEDORA-2007-546 2007-06-11 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0465-01 2007-06-11

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perl-Net-DNS: predictable id sequence

Package(s):	perl-Net-DNS	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3377
Created:	June 26, 2007	Updated:	March 12, 2008
Description:	Net::DNS before 0.60 uses an id sequence that is predictable and the same in all child processes.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1515-1 2008-03-11 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:017 2007-08-17 Gentoo 200708-06 2007-08-11 rPath rPSA-2007-0142-1 2007-07-17 Ubuntu USN-483-1 2007-07-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:146 2007-07-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0675-01 2007-07-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0674-01 2007-07-12 Fedora FEDORA-2007-609 2007-07-02 Fedora FEDORA-2007-612 2007-07-02 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0668 2007-06-25

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php: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	php	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1001 CVE-2007-1285 CVE-2007-1718 CVE-2007-1583
Created:	April 16, 2007	Updated:	December 4, 2007
Description:	A denial of service flaw was found in the way PHP processed a deeply nested array. A remote attacker could cause the PHP interpreter to crash by submitting an input variable with a deeply nested array. (CVE-2007-1285) A flaw was found in the way the mbstring extension set global variables. A script which used the mb_parse_str() function to set global variables could be forced to enable the register_globals configuration option, possibly resulting in global variable injection. (CVE-2007-1583) A flaw was discovered in the way PHP's mail() function processed header data. If a script sent mail using a Subject header containing a string from an untrusted source, a remote attacker could send bulk e-mail to unintended recipients. (CVE-2007-1718) A heap based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in PHP's gd extension. A script that could be forced to process WBMP images from an untrusted source could result in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-1001)
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-549-2 2007-12-03 Ubuntu USN-549-1 2007-11-29 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.019 2007-05-28 Fedora FEDORA-2007-526 2007-05-24 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:032 2007-05-23 Slackware SSA:2007-127-01 2007-05-08 Debian DSA-1283-1 2007-04-29 Ubuntu USN-455-1 2007-04-27 Debian DSA-1282-1 2007-04-26 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0153-01 2007-04-20 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:090 2007-04-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:089 2007-04-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:088 2007-04-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:087 2007-04-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-455 2007-04-18 rPath rPSA-2007-0073-1 2007-04-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-415 2007-04-17 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0155-01 2007-04-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0154-01 2007-04-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0162-01 2007-04-16

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php: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):	php	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-4481 CVE-2006-4484 CVE-2006-4485
Created:	September 8, 2006	Updated:	June 13, 2008
Description:	The file_exists and imap_reopen functions in PHP before 5.1.5 do not check for the safe_mode and open_basedir settings, which allows local users to bypass the settings (CVE-2006-4481). A buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_gif_in.c in the GD extension in PHP before 5.1.5 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a GIF file with input_code_size greater than MAX_LWZ_BITS, which triggers an overflow when initializing the table array (CVE-2006-4484). The stripos function in PHP before 5.1.5 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to an out-of-bounds read (CVE-2006-4485).
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:013 2008-06-13 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:077 2007-03-26 SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:005 2008-03-06 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1643 2008-02-13 Foresight FLEA-2008-0007-1 2008-02-11 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1122 2008-02-05 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1131 2008-02-05 SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:003 2008-02-07 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:038 2007-02-07 rPath rPSA-2008-0046-1 2008-02-06 Gentoo 200802-01 2008-02-06 rPath rPSA-2006-0182-1 2006-10-05 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:052 2006-09-21 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0669-01 2006-09-21 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:162 2006-09-07

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php: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	php	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2872 CVE-2007-2756
Created:	June 1, 2007	Updated:	January 29, 2008
Description:	According to a vendor release announcement multiple security enhancements and fixes were fixed in version 5.2.3 of the programming language PHP.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:004 2008-01-29 Ubuntu USN-549-2 2007-12-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0891-01 2007-10-25 Ubuntu USN-549-1 2007-11-29 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0888-01 2007-10-23 Gentoo 200710-02 2007-10-07 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0889-01 2007-09-26 Fedora FEDORA-2007-709 2007-09-24 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:187 2007-09-21 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0890-02 2007-09-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2215 2007-09-18 rPath rPSA-2007-0188-1 2007-09-17 Slackware SSA:2007-255-03 2007-09-13 rPath rPSA-2007-0117-1 2007-06-07 Slackware SSA:2007-152-01 2007-06-04 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2007.020 2007-06-01

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php: buffer overflows

Package(s):	php	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-5465
Created:	November 3, 2006	Updated:	January 18, 2010
Description:	The Hardened-PHP Project discovered buffer overflows in htmlentities/htmlspecialchars internal routines to the PHP Project. Of course the whole purpose of these functions is to be filled with user input. (The overflow can only be when UTF-8 is used)
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2010:007 2010-01-15 SuSE SUSE-SA:2006:067 2006-11-15 rPath rPSA-2006-0205-1 2006-11-09 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0731-01 2006-11-10 Red Hat RHSA-2006:0730-01 2006-11-06 Debian DSA-1206-1 2006-11-06 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1169 2006-11-06 Fedora FEDORA-2006-1168 2006-11-06 Slackware SSA:2006-307-01 2006-11-06 OpenPKG OpenPKG-SA-2006.028 2006-11-06 Ubuntu USN-375-1 2006-11-02 Mandriva MDKSA-2006:196 2006-11-02

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phpbb2: missing input sanitizing

Package(s):	phpbb2	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-1896
Created:	May 22, 2006	Updated:	February 11, 2008
Description:	It was discovered that phpbb2, a web based bulletin board, insufficiently sanitizes values passed to the "Font Color 3" setting, which might lead to the execution of injected code by admin users.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1066-1 2006-05-20

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phpbb2: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	phpbb2	CVE #(s):	CVE-2005-3310 CVE-2005-3415 CVE-2005-3416 CVE-2005-3417 CVE-2005-3418 CVE-2005-3419 CVE-2005-3420 CVE-2005-3536 CVE-2005-3537
Created:	December 22, 2005	Updated:	February 11, 2008
Description:	The phpbb2 web forum has a number of vulnerabilities including: a web script injection problem, a protection mechanism bypass, a security check bypass, a remote global variable bypass, cross site scripting vulnerabilities, an SQL injection vulnerability, a remote regular expression modification problem, missing input sanitizing, and a missing request validation problem.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-925-1 2005-12-22

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phpmyadmin: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	phpmyadmin	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-6942 CVE-2006-6944 CVE-2007-1325 CVE-2007-1395 CVE-2007-2245
Created:	September 10, 2007	Updated:	March 19, 2009
Description:	Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpMyAdmin, a program to administrate MySQL over the web. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-1325: The PMA_ArrayWalkRecursive function in libraries/common.lib.php does not limit recursion on arrays provided by users, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (web server crash) via an array with many dimensions. CVE-2007-1395: Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in index.php allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by injecting arbitrary JavaScript or HTML in a (1) db or (2) table parameter value followed by an uppercase </SCRIPT> end tag, which bypasses the protection against lowercase </script>. CVE-2007-2245: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the fieldkey parameter to browse_foreigners.php or (2) certain input to the PMA_sanitize function. CVE-2006-6942: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) a comment for a table name, as exploited through (a) db_operations.php, (2) the db parameter to (b) db_create.php, (3) the newname parameter to db_operations.php, the (4) query_history_latest, (5) query_history_latest_db, and (6) querydisplay_tab parameters to (c) querywindow.php, and (7) the pos parameter to (d) sql.php. CVE-2006-6944: phpMyAdmin allows remote attackers to bypass Allow/Deny access rules that use IP addresses via false headers.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200903-32 2009-03-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:199 2007-10-17 Debian DSA-1370-2 2007-09-10 Debian DSA-1370-1 2007-09-09

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phpPgAdmin: cross-site scripting

Package(s):	phppgadmin	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2865 CVE-2007-5728
Created:	June 18, 2007	Updated:	January 21, 2009
Description:	A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sqledit.php in phpPgAdmin 4.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the server parameter.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1693-1 2008-12-27 Debian DSA-1693-2 2009-01-21 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:024 2007-11-22 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1013 2007-07-11 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0469 2007-06-16

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pidgin: denial of service

Package(s):	pidgin	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4996
Created:	October 3, 2007	Updated:	November 2, 2007
Description:	Pidgin can be forced to crash by an MSN user sending "nudge" messages.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-2368 2007-10-03 Slackware SSA:2007-275-01 2007-10-03 Foresight FLEA-2007-0057-1 2007-10-02

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postgresql: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):	postgresql	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3278 CVE-2007-3279 CVE-2007-3280
Created:	September 25, 2007	Updated:	February 1, 2008
Description:	PostgreSQL 8.1 and probably later and earlier versions, when local trust authentication is enabled and the Database Link library (dblink) is installed, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary accounts and execute arbitrary SQL queries via a dblink host parameter that proxies the connection from 127.0.0.1. (CVE-2007-3278) PostgreSQL 8.1 and probably later and earlier versions, when the PL/pgSQL (plpgsql) language has been created, grants certain plpgsql privileges to the PUBLIC domain, which allows remote attackers to create and execute functions, as demonstrated by functions that perform local brute-force password guessing attacks, which may evade intrusion detection. (CVE-2007-3279) The Database Link library (dblink) in PostgreSQL 8.1 implements functions via CREATE statements that map to arbitrary libraries based on the C programming language, which allows remote authenticated superusers to map and execute a function from any library, as demonstrated by using the system function in libc.so.6 to gain shell access. (CVE-2007-3280)
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0040-01 2008-02-01 Gentoo 200801-15 2008-01-29 Ubuntu USN-568-1 2008-01-14 Debian DSA-1463-1 2008-01-14 Debian DSA-1460-1 2008-01-13 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0039-01 2008-01-11 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0038-01 2008-01-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:188 2007-09-25

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proftpd: authentication bypass

Package(s):	proftpd	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2165
Created:	June 21, 2007	Updated:	November 5, 2007
Description:	The ProFTPD Auth API has an authentication bypass vulnerability. When multiple simultaneous authentication modules are configured, the ProFTPD module that checks authentication is not necessarily the same module that retrieves authentication data. This can be used by remote attackers to bypass the authentication system.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-2613 2007-11-05 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:130 2007-06-20

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pulseaudio: denial of service

Package(s):	pulseaudio	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1804
Created:	May 30, 2007	Updated:	March 10, 2008
Description:	The pulseaudio network code suffers from a denial of service vulnerability exploitable by an unauthenticated attacker.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2008:065 2007-03-09 Ubuntu USN-465-1 2007-05-25

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pwlib: denial of service

Package(s):	pwlib	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4897
Created:	October 8, 2007	Updated:	January 9, 2008
Description:	From the Red Hat advisory: A memory management flaw was discovered in PWLib. An attacker could use this flaw to crash an application, such as Ekiga, which is linked with pwlib (CVE-2007-4897).
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-561-1 2008-01-08 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:206 2007-11-02 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0932-01 2007-10-08

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python: information disclosure

Package(s):	python	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2052
Created:	May 9, 2007	Updated:	July 30, 2009
Description:	Python 2.4 and 2.5 contain a bug in PyLocale_strxfrm() which could enable an attacker to read portions of unrelated memory.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2009:1176 2009-07-29 Red Hat RHSA-2009:1176-01 2009-07-27 Debian DSA-1620-1 2008-07-27 Debian DSA-1551-1 2008-04-19 Ubuntu USN-585-1 2008-03-11 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1076-02 2007-12-10 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1077-01 2007-12-10 Foresight FLEA-2007-0019-1 2007-05-21 rPath rPSA-2007-0104-1 2007-05-17 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:099 2007-05-08

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qemu: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	qemu	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1320 CVE-2007-1321 CVE-2007-1322 CVE-2007-1323 CVE-2007-1366
Created:	May 1, 2007	Updated:	January 19, 2009
Description:	Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the QEMU processor emulator, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code or denial of service.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-11705 2008-12-24 Fedora FEDORA-2008-10000 2008-11-22 Fedora FEDORA-2008-9556 2008-11-12 SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:002 2009-01-19 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:162 2008-08-07 Fedora FEDORA-2008-4386 2008-05-28 Fedora FEDORA-2008-4604 2008-05-28 Fedora FEDORA-2007-713 2007-10-08 Debian DSA-1384-1 2007-10-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2270 2007-10-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0323-01 2007-10-02 Debian-Testing DTSA-38-1 2007-05-26 Debian DSA-1284-1 2007-05-01

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qt: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	qt	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3388
Created:	August 1, 2007	Updated:	December 10, 2007
Description:	Format string bugs were found in several Qt warning messages. Applications using Qt for processing certain data types could trigger them if the data caused Qt to print warnings. The bugs potentially allow to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted files (CVE-2007-3388).
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1426-1 2007-12-08 Gentoo 200708-16 2007-08-22 Slackware SSA:2007-222-03 2007-08-13 Foresight FLEA-2007-0042-1 2007-08-03 Ubuntu USN-495-1 2007-08-03 rPath rPSA-2007-0153-1 2007-08-01 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:151 2007-08-01 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:048 2007-08-01 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0721-01 2007-07-31

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qt: buffer overflow

Package(s):	qt	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4137
Created:	September 14, 2007	Updated:	December 10, 2007
Description:	A buffer overflow was found in how Qt expanded malformed Unicode strings. If an application linked against Qt parsed a malicious Unicode string, it could lead to a denial of service or potentially allow for the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1426-1 2007-12-08 Gentoo 200710-28 2007-10-25 rPath rPSA-2007-0204-1 2007-10-03 Foresight FLEA-2007-0059-1 2007-10-04 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:019 2007-09-28 Ubuntu USN-513-1 2007-09-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-703 2007-09-18 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2216 2007-09-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:183 2007-09-13

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quagga: denial of service

Package(s):	quagga	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4826
Created:	September 14, 2007	Updated:	October 25, 2010
Description:	The bgpd daemon in Quagga prior to 0.99.9 allowed remote BGP peers to cause a denial of service crash via a malformed OPEN message or COMMUNITY attribute.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2010:0785 2010-10-25 CentOS CESA-2010:0785 2010-10-20 Red Hat RHSA-2010:0785-01 2010-10-20 Debian DSA-1379-1 2007-10-01 Trustix TSLSA-2007-0028 2007-09-21 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2196 2007-09-18 Ubuntu USN-512-1 2007-09-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:182 2007-09-13

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quake: buffer overflow

Package(s):	quake3-bin	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-2236
Created:	May 10, 2006	Updated:	January 12, 2009
Description:	Games based on the Quake 3 engine are vulnerable to a buffer overflow exploitable by a hostile game server.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200901-06 2009-01-11 Gentoo 200605-12 2006-05-10

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redhat-cluster-suite: denial of service

Package(s):	redhat-cluster-suite	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3380
Created:	July 19, 2007	Updated:	November 14, 2007
Description:	The redhat cluster suite's cluster manager is vulnerable to a remote attack. Attackers can connect to the DLM port and block subsequent DLM operations, resulting in a denial of service.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-489-1 2007-07-19 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0940-01 2007-10-22 Ubuntu USN-489-2 2007-07-19

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rsync: off-by-one errors

Package(s):	rsync	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4091
Created:	August 20, 2007	Updated:	December 3, 2007
Description:	Multiple off-by-one errors in the sender.c in rsync 2.6.9 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via directory names that are not properly handled when calling the f_name function.
Alerts:	Slackware SSA:2007-335-01 2007-12-03 Gentoo 200709-13 2007-09-20 Debian DSA-1360 2007-08-28 Foresight FLEA-2007-0047-1 2007-08-23 rPath rPSA-2007-0168-1 2007-08-22 Ubuntu USN-500-1 2007-08-20 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:166 2007-08-18

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ruby: insufficient SSL certificate validation

Package(s):	ruby	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5162 CVE-2007-5770
Created:	October 8, 2007	Updated:	October 10, 2008
Description:	The connect method in lib/net/http.rb in the (1) Net::HTTP and (2) Net::HTTPS libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 does not verify that the commonName (CN) field in a server certificate matches the domain name in an HTTPS request, which makes it easier for remote attackers to intercept SSL transmissions via a man-in-the-middle attack or spoofed web site.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2008-6094 2008-07-04 Fedora FEDORA-2008-6033 2008-07-03 Ubuntu USN-596-1 2008-03-26 Fedora FEDORA-2008-2443 2008-03-13 Fedora FEDORA-2008-2458 2008-03-13 Mandriva MDVSA-2008:029 2007-01-31 Debian DSA-1411-1 2007-11-24 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:024 2007-11-22 Debian DSA-1412-1 2007-11-24 Debian DSA-1410-1 2007-11-24 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0961-01 2007-11-13 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0965-01 2007-11-13 Foresight FLEA-2007-0068-1 2007-11-11 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2812 2007-11-06 Fedora FEDORA-2007-738 2007-11-05 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2685 2007-10-29 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2406 2007-10-08 Fedora FEDORA-2007-718 2007-10-08

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samba: incorrect group assignment

Package(s):	samba	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4138
Created:	September 12, 2007	Updated:	November 15, 2007
Description:	From the Samba advisory: When the rfc2307 or sfu nss_info plugin has been enabled, in the absence of either the RFC2307 or SFU primary group attribute, Winbind will assign a primary group ID of 0 to the domain user queried using the getpwnam() C library call.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:1017-01 2007-11-15 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1016-01 2007-11-15 rPath rPSA-2007-0184-1 2007-09-14 Slackware SSA:2007-255-02 2007-09-13 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2145 2007-09-12

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star: directory traversal vulnerability

Package(s):	star	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4134
Created:	August 28, 2007	Updated:	October 23, 2007
Description:	Star saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. Star supports ACL. Version 1.5a84 fixes a directory traversal vulnerability.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-23 2007-10-22 Foresight FLEA-2007-0051-1 2007-09-06 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0873-01 2007-09-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1852 2007-08-27

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streamripper: buffer overflow

Package(s):	streamripper	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4337
Created:	September 14, 2007	Updated:	December 9, 2008
Description:	Chris Rohlf discovered several boundary errors in the httplib_parse_sc_header() function when processing HTTP headers.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1683-1 2008-12-08 Gentoo 200709-03 2007-09-13

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Sun JDK/JRE: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	Sun JDK/JRE	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2435 CVE-2007-2788 CVE-2007-2789
Created:	June 1, 2007	Updated:	April 18, 2008
Description:	An unspecified vulnerability involving an "incorrect use of system classes" was reported by the Fujitsu security team. Additionally, Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reported an integer overflow resulting in a buffer overflow in the ICC parser used with JPG or BMP files, and an incorrect open() call to /dev/tty when processing certain BMP files.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200804-20 2008-04-17 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1086-01 2007-12-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0817-01 2007-08-06 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:045 2007-07-18 Gentoo 200706-08 2007-06-26 Gentoo 200705-23 2007-05-31

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sylpheed: format string vulnerability

Package(s):	sylpheed	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2958
Created:	August 28, 2007	Updated:	October 26, 2007
Description:	Ulf Harnhammar (Secunia Research) has discovered a format string vulnerability in sylpheed and claws-mail in inc_put_error() function in src/inc.c when displaying POP3 error reply. The problem can be exploited by malicious POP3 server via specially crafted POP3 server replies containing format specifiers. See this Secunia advisory for more information.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-29 2007-10-25 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2009 2007-09-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1841 2007-08-27

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sysstat: insecure temporary files

Package(s):	sysstat	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3852
Created:	August 20, 2007	Updated:	September 23, 2011
Description:	The init script (sysstat.in) in sysstat 5.1.2 up to 7.1.6 creates /tmp/sysstat.run insecurely, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2011:1005 2011-09-22 Scientific Linux SL-syss-20110721 2011-07-21 Red Hat RHSA-2011:1005-01 2011-07-21 Fedora FEDORA-2007-675 2007-08-27 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1697 2007-08-20

Comments (1 posted)

t1lib: buffer overflow

Package(s):	t1lib	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4033
Created:	September 20, 2007	Updated:	February 12, 2008
Description:	T1lib, an enhanced rasterizer for X11 Type 1 fonts, does not properly perform bounds checking. An attacker can send specially crafted input to applications linked against the library in order to create a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Foresight FLEA-2008-0006-1 2008-02-11 rPath rPSA-2008-0007-1 2008-01-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:230 2007-11-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3308 2007-11-20 Fedora FEDORA-2007-750 2007-11-21 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3390 2007-11-20 Red Hat RHSA-2007:1027-02 2007-11-08 Debian DSA-1390-1 2007-10-18 Gentoo 200710-12 2007-10-12 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2343 2007-09-28 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:189 2007-09-27 Ubuntu USN-515-1 2007-09-19

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tar: symlink path traversal vulnerability

Package(s):	tar	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4131
Created:	August 23, 2007	Updated:	December 28, 2007
Description:	The tar utility has a symlink path traversal vulnerability involving extracted archives. Maliciously created tar archives can be used to write arbitrary data to files that the tar user has write access to.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1438-1 2007-12-28 Gentoo 200709-09 2007-09-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:173 2007-09-04 Fedora FEDORA-2007-683 2007-08-30 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:018 2007-08-31 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1890 2007-08-29 Ubuntu USN-506-1 2007-08-28 rPath rPSA-2007-0172-1 2007-08-25 Foresight FLEA-2007-0049-1 2007-08-27 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0860-01 2007-08-23

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tcpdump: integer overflow

Package(s):	tcpdump	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3798
Created:	July 20, 2007	Updated:	November 15, 2007
Description:	An integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted TLVs in a BGP packet, related to an unchecked return value.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:0387-02 2007-11-15 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0368-03 2007-11-07 Slackware SSA:2007-230-01 2007-08-20 Debian DSA-1353-1 2007-08-11 Fedora FEDORA-2007-654 2007-08-01 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1361 2007-07-31 Ubuntu USN-492-1 2007-07-30 Gentoo 200707-14 2007-07-28 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:148 2007-07-25 rPath rPSA-2007-0147-1 2007-07-20

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tcpdump: denial of service

Package(s):	tcpdump	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1218
Created:	March 5, 2007	Updated:	November 15, 2007
Description:	Off-by-one buffer overflow in the parse_elements function in the 802.11 printer code (print-802_11.c) for tcpdump 3.9.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted 802.11 frame. NOTE: this was originally referred to as heap-based, but it might be stack-based.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:0387-02 2007-11-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:155 2007-08-09 Debian DSA-1272-1 2007-03-22 Fedora FEDORA-2007-348 2007-03-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-347 2007-03-15 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:056 2006-03-08 Ubuntu USN-429-1 2007-03-06 rPath rPSA-2007-0048-1 2007-03-03

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tcp-wrappers: unauthorized access

Package(s):	tcp-wrappers	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5137
Created:	August 30, 2007	Updated:	October 13, 2007
Description:	The TCP wrapper library can improperly allow connections to services that do not have server-side connection details specified. Remote attackers can connect to blocked services.
Alerts:	Ubuntu USN-507-1 2007-08-30

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terminal: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	terminal	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3770
Created:	August 13, 2007	Updated:	December 19, 2007
Description:	A vulnerability was found in the Xfce terminal program: Lasse Karkkainen discovered that the function terminal_helper_execute() in file terminal-helper.c does not properly escape the URIs before processing.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-4368 2007-12-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-4385 2007-12-15 Debian DSA-1393-1 2007-10-23 Fedora FEDORA-2007-1620 2007-08-15 Ubuntu USN-497-1 2007-08-14 Gentoo 200708-07 2007-08-11

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tetex: buffer overflow

Package(s):	tetex	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0650
Created:	May 8, 2007	Updated:	May 13, 2008
Description:	A buffer overflow in the open_sty function in mkind.c for makeindex 2.14 in teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: other overflows exist but might not be exploitable, such as a heap-based overflow in the check_idx function.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200805-13 2008-05-12 Gentoo 200709-17 2007-09-27 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:109 2007-05-23 rPath rPSA-2007-0092-1 2007-05-07

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tk: arbitrary code execution via malformed GIF

Package(s):	tk	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4851
Created:	October 8, 2007	Updated:	October 10, 2007
Description:	From the Gentoo advisory: Reinhard Max discovered a boundary error in Tk when processing an interlaced GIF with two frames where the second is smaller than the first one.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200710-07 2007-10-07

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tomcat: directory traversal

Package(s):	tomcat	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0450
Created:	May 2, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	Versions of tomcat prior to 5.5.22 do not properly filter filename separator characters, enabling information disclosure attacks.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:241 2007-12-10 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0360-01 2007-05-24 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0328-01 2007-05-24 Fedora FEDORA-2007-514 2007-05-21 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0326-01 2007-05-21 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0327-01 2007-05-14 Gentoo 200705-03 2007-05-01

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tomcat: cross-site scripting

Package(s):	tomcat	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2449 CVE-2007-2450
Created:	July 17, 2007	Updated:	February 17, 2009
Description:	Some JSPs within the 'examples' web application did not escape user provided data. If the JSP examples were accessible, this flaw could allow a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks (CVE-2007-2449). Note: it is recommended the 'examples' web application not be installed on a production system. The Manager and Host Manager web applications did not escape user provided data. If a user is logged in to the Manager or Host Manager web application, an attacker could perform a cross-site scripting attack (CVE-2007-2450).
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:004 2009-02-17 Fedora FEDORA-2008-8130 2008-09-16 SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:007 2008-03-28 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1603 2008-02-13 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1467 2008-02-13 Debian DSA-1468-1 2008-01-20 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:241 2007-12-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3474 2007-11-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3456 2007-11-17 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0569-01 2007-07-17

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tomcat: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	tomcat	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3382 CVE-2007-3385 CVE-2007-3386
Created:	September 26, 2007	Updated:	September 13, 2010
Description:	Tomcat was found treating single quote characters -- ' -- as delimiters in cookies. This could allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3382). It was reported Tomcat did not properly handle the following character sequence in a cookie: \" (a backslash followed by a double-quote). It was possible remote attackers could use this failure to obtain sensitive information, such as session IDs, for session hijacking attacks (CVE-2007-3385). A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability existed in the Host Manager Servlet. This allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via crafted requests (CVE-2007-3386).
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2010:176 2010-09-12 SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:004 2009-02-17 Fedora FEDORA-2008-8130 2008-09-16 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0195-01 2008-04-28 SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:005 2008-03-06 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1603 2008-02-13 Fedora FEDORA-2008-1467 2008-02-13 Debian DSA-1447-1 2008-01-03 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:241 2007-12-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3456 2007-11-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-3474 2007-11-17 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0950-01 2007-11-05 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0876-01 2007-10-11 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0871-01 2007-09-26

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util-linux: privilege escalation

Package(s):	util-linux	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-5191
Created:	October 9, 2007	Updated:	January 7, 2008
Description:	mount and umount in util-linux call the setuid and setgid functions in the wrong order and do not check the return values, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via helpers such as mount.nfs.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1450-1 2008-01-05 Debian DSA-1449-1 2008-01-05 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0969-01 2007-11-15 SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:022 2007-10-26 Ubuntu USN-533-1 2007-10-22 Gentoo 200710-18 2007-10-18 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:198 2007-10-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-722 2007-10-15 Fedora FEDORA-2007-2462 2007-10-10 rPath rPSA-2007-0212-1 2007-10-08

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vim: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	vim	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2953
Created:	July 30, 2007	Updated:	November 27, 2008
Description:	vim is vulnerable to a user-assisted attack in which vim may execute arbitrary code when helptags is run on data that has been maliciously crafted.
Alerts:	CentOS CESA-2008:0580 2008-11-26 CentOS CESA-2008:0617 2008-11-25 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0617-01 2008-11-25 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0580-01 2008-11-25 Debian DSA-1364-2 2007-09-19 Debian DSA-1364-1 2007-09-01 Ubuntu USN-505-1 2007-08-28 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:168 2007-08-21 rPath rPSA-2007-0151-1 2007-07-31 Foresight FLEA-2007-0036-1 2007-07-30

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vixie-cron: weak permissions may cause errors

Package(s):	vixie-cron	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1856
Created:	April 17, 2007	Updated:	December 4, 2007
Description:	During an internal audit, Raphael Marichez of the Gentoo Linux Security Team found that Vixie Cron has weak permissions set on Gentoo, allowing for a local user to create hard links to system and users cron files, while a st_nlink check in database.c will generate a superfluous error.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDKSA-2007:234 2007-12-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0345-01 2007-05-17 Gentoo 200704-11 2007-04-16

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vlc: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):	vlc	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3316 CVE-2007-3467 CVE-2007-3468
Created:	July 10, 2007	Updated:	March 10, 2008
Description:	Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the VideoLan multimedia player and streamer, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200803-13 2008-03-07 Gentoo 200707-12 2007-07-28 Debian DSA-1332-1 2007-07-09

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wireshark: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):	wireshark	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3390 CVE-2007-3392 CVE-2007-3393
Created:	June 28, 2007	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	The wireshark network traffic analyzer has three vulnerabilities that can be used to create a denial of service. These include off-by-one overflows in the iSeries dissector, vulnerabilities in the MMS and SSL dissectors that can cause an infinite loop and an off-by-one overflow in the DHCP/BOOTP dissector.
Alerts:	SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0059-01 2008-01-21 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0709-02 2007-11-15 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0710-04 2007-11-07 Gentoo 200708-12 2007-08-16 Fedora FEDORA-2007-628 2007-07-09 rPath rPSA-2007-0137-1 2007-07-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:145 2007-07-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-0982 2007-07-09 Debian DSA-1322-1 2007-06-27

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x11: xfs font server overflows

Package(s):	x11	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4568 CVE-2007-4989 CVE-2007-4990
Created:	October 4, 2007	Updated:	January 18, 2008
Description:	xorg-x11 has a number of integer and heap overflow vulnerabilities in the xfs font server. A local attacker may be able to use these for the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2008:0029-01 2008-01-18 Red Hat RHSA-2008:0030-01 2008-01-17 Fedora FEDORA-2007-4263 2007-12-10 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:210 2007-11-06 Gentoo 200710-11 2007-10-12 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:054 2007-10-12 Debian DSA-1385-1 2007-10-09 rPath rPSA-2007-0205-1 2007-10-03

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xen: privilege escalation

Package(s):	xen	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4993
Created:	October 9, 2007	Updated:	November 2, 2007
Description:	pygrub (tools/pygrub/src/GrubConf.py) in Xen 3.0.3, when booting a guest domain, allows local users with elevated privileges in the guest domain to execute arbitrary commands in domain 0 via a crafted grub.conf file whose contents are used in exec statements.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2007-2708 2007-11-01 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:203 2007-11-01 Ubuntu USN-527-1 2007-10-05 rPath rPSA-2007-0210-1 2007-10-08

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XFree86 X.org: integer overflows

Package(s):	xfree86 x.org	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1003 CVE-2007-1667 CVE-2007-1351 CVE-2007-1352
Created:	April 3, 2007	Updated:	August 11, 2009
Description:	iDefense reported an integer overflow flaw in the XFree86 XC-MISC extension. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the XFree86 server. (CVE-2007-1003) iDefense reported two integer overflows in the way X.org handled various font files. A malicious local user could exploit these issues to potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the X.org server. (CVE-2007-1351, CVE-2007-1352) An integer overflow flaw was found in the XFree86 XGetPixel() function. Improper use of this function could cause an application calling it to function improperly, possibly leading to a crash or arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-1667)
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1858-1 2009-08-10 SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:008 2008-04-04 Debian DSA-1454-1 2008-01-07 Debian DSA-1294-1 2007-05-17 Gentoo 200705-10 2007-05-08 Gentoo 200705-06 2007-05-05 Gentoo 200705-02 2007-05-01 Ubuntu USN-453-2 2007-04-26 SuSE SUSE-SA:2007:027 2007-04-20 Slackware SSA:2007-109-01 2007-04-20 Ubuntu USN-453-1 2007-04-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0157-01 2007-04-16 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0150-01 2007-04-16 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:079-1 2007-04-11 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:080-1 2007-04-10 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:081-1 2007-04-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-427 2007-04-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-426 2007-04-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-425 2007-04-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-424 2007-04-10 Fedora FEDORA-2007-423 2007-04-09 Fedora FEDORA-2007-422 2007-04-09 Foresight FLEA-2007-0009-1 2007-04-05 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:080 2007-04-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:081 2007-04-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:079 2007-04-04 rPath rPSA-2007-0065-1 2007-04-04 Ubuntu USN-448-1 2007-04-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0132-01 2007-04-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0127-01 2007-04-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0126-01 2007-04-03 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0125-01 2007-04-03

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xine-lib: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):	xine-lib	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-1387
Created:	March 13, 2007	Updated:	April 1, 2008
Description:	Moritz Jodeit discovered that the DirectShow loader of Xine did not correctly validate the size of an allocated buffer. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted media file, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.
Alerts:	Debian DSA-1536-1 2008-03-31 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:062 2007-03-13 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:061 2007-03-13 Ubuntu USN-435-1 2007-03-12

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xine-lib: buffer overflow

Package(s):	xine-lib	CVE #(s):	CVE-2006-1664
Created:	April 27, 2006	Updated:	February 27, 2008
Description:	xine-lib does an improper input data boundary check on MPEG streams. A specially crafted MPEG file can be created that can cause arbitrary code execution when the file is accessed.
Alerts:	Gentoo 200802-12 2008-02-26 Gentoo 200604-16 2006-04-26

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xmms: BMP handling vulnerability

Package(s):	xmms	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-0653 CVE-2007-0654
Created:	March 28, 2007	Updated:	July 26, 2011
Description:	xmms suffers from vulnerabilities in its handling of BMP images. Should a hostile image be included in an xmms skin, it could lead to code execution on the user's system.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2011-9421 2011-07-16 Fedora FEDORA-2011-9413 2011-07-16 Debian DSA-1277-1 2007-04-04 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:071 2007-03-29 Ubuntu USN-445-1 2007-03-27

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X.org: temp file vulnerability

Package(s):	X.org	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-3103
Created:	July 12, 2007	Updated:	July 2, 2009
Description:	The X.Org X11 xfs font server has a temp file vulnerability in the startup script. A local user can modify the permissions of the script in order to elevate their local privileges.
Alerts:	Fedora FEDORA-2009-3651 2009-04-14 Fedora FEDORA-2009-3666 2009-04-14 Debian DSA-1342-1 2007-07-30 rPath rPSA-2007-0141-1 2007-07-17 Foresight FLEA-2007-0031-1 2007-07-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0520-01 2007-07-12 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0519-01 2007-07-12

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xorg-server: local privilege escalation

Package(s):	xorg-server	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-4730
Created:	September 10, 2007	Updated:	January 24, 2008
Description:	Aaron Plattner discovered a buffer overflow in the Composite extension of the X.org X server, which can lead to local privilege escalation.
Alerts:	Mandriva MDVSA-2008:022 2008-01-23 Gentoo 200710-16 2007-10-14 Ubuntu USN-514-1 2007-09-18 Red Hat RHSA-2007:0898-01 2007-09-19 rPath rPSA-2007-0187-1 2007-09-14 Mandriva MDKSA-2007:178 2007-09-11 Debian DSA-1372-1 2007-09-09

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xterm: local user unauthorized access

Package(s):	xterm	CVE #(s):	CVE-2007-2797
Created:	August 27, 2007	Updated:	November 15, 2007
Description:	Previous versions of the xterm package assigned incorrect ownership and write permissions to pseudo-terminal devices, permitting local users to direct output to other users' xterm sessions.
Alerts:	Red Hat RHSA-2007:0701-02 2007-11-15 rPath rPSA-2007-0169-1 2007-08-23 Foresight FLEA-2007-0048-1 2007-08-23

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Kernel development

Brief items

Kernel release status

There is no mainline 2.6 prepatch as of this writing; the 2.6.24 merge window remains open. Patches are flowing into the mainline repository at a high rate; see the article below for the highlights.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.23-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a new power management "quality of service" infrastructure, a number of ext4 updates, and the kernel markers patch.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.23.1, released on October 12. This update contains a single fix for a corruption problem in the sata_mv driver.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.55 was released on October 14 with several security fixes.

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Kernel development news

Quotes of the week

-- Linus Torvalds

-- Alan Cox relaxes the rules in 2.6.24

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Merged for 2.6.24

The 2.6.24 merge window is open and, as of this writing, some 5,600 patches have found their way into the mainline. As usual, the list of changes is extensive. Some of the highlights among user-visible changes are:

• New drivers have been added for Toshiba TCM825x cameras (as found in the Nokia N800), Conexant cx23415 MPEG encoders (in framebuffer mode), Dual-DVB-T tuners, DiBcom DiB0070 tuners, Microtune MT2131 tuners, Samsung S5H1409 demodulators, Conexant CX23885/CX23887 PCIe bridge devices, Samsung LTV350QV LCD panel backlights, Kingsun KS-959 and "Dazzle" IrDA USB dongles, ADMtek ADM8211-based wireless network adapters, Marvell Libertas 8385 CF wireless adapters, Intel 82598-based 10GbE network cards, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG and Link AGN adapters (finally), IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet cards, ICH9 on-board Ethernet adapters, Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet adapters, Sonics Silicon Backplane busses, several Ralink wireless adapters, "EMAC" built-in PowerPC ethernet controllers, Sun Neptune Ethernet adapters, Winchiphead CH341 USB-RS232 converters, Atmel AT32AP7000 USB device controllers, Blackfin bf548 ATAPI controllers, Atmel AVR32 parallel ATA controllers, National Semiconductor NS87415 parallel ATA controllers, Olympus MAUSB-10 and Fujifilm DPC-R1 flash card readers (which have the nice feature of allowing direct flash access without an intervening translation layer), TI DaVinci I2C controllers, Analog Devices ADT7470 temperature monitoring chips, IBM PowerExecutive power/temperature sensors, TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet controllers, Siemens SX1 phones, Dallas Semiconductor DS1374 realtime clock chips, Atmel AT73C213 external sound devices, Cirrus Logic CS4270 codec devices, Gallant SC-6000 Audio Excel DSPs, and Atmel AT32AP and AT91 on-chip synchronous serial controllers.

• The Broadcom BCM43xx driver has been replaced by a new version which uses the mac80211 layer. Actually, there's two drivers: "b43" for newer adapters, and "b43legacy" for older 802.11b and 802.11g devices.

• The "dgrs" Digi RightSwitch driver has been removed from the kernel. This product, evidently, was never actually sold, so there should not be a whole lot of users inconvenienced by this change.

• The kernel now has basic support for SDIO peripherals. There is also now driver support for MMC/SD cards accessed via SPI controllers.

• The CFS group scheduling code has been merged. As of this writing, though, the feature cannot actually be turned on because the control groups code has not yet been merged. There is also a per-UID fair scheduling option which does work now.

• There is now support for RPC-based RDMA and the ability to mount NFS filesystems using RDMA.

• The traffic shaper, which limits bandwidth usage on network links, has been marked obsolete and scheduled for removal in 2.6.25. The much more flexible qdisc subsystem should be used instead.

• Allocation of UDP port numbers is now randomized.

• The netconsole code can now support multiple logging targets.

• Support for network namespaces has been added, enabling the virtualization of network-related resources in containers. Also merged is a virtual Ethernet driver which can be used to create network tunnels into (and out of) containers.

• The Authenticated chunks protocol for the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) is supported.

• A new "stateless NAT" implementation performs IPv4 network address translation in a much more resource-efficient manner.

• Support for the SEED encryption algorithm has been added.

• Dynamic tick and clockevent support for the x86_64 architecture (now the 64-bit version of the new x86 architecture, see below) has been merged.

• Support for serial ATA port multipliers has been added.

• LZO compression is now supported in the JFFS2 filesystem.

• The USB device authorization code - a prerequisite to wireless USB support - has been merged.

• A new hidraw device provides access to a stream of unprocessed input device events for applications which have special needs in this area.

• The per-device write throttling patches have been merged; these patches should help the system keep heavy traffic on one block device from starving other devices. The floating proportions patch, needed to support per-device throttling, has also gone in.

• There is a new sysctl flag for the out-of-memory killer (oom_kill_allocating_task). If this flag is set, the OOM killer will simply kill the process whose allocation brings about the out-of-memory situation instead of scanning through the system looking for better targets.

• Disk quota messages can now be delivered via a netlink socket. This should make it easier for graphical environments to inform the user when disk quota problems are encountered.

• The new F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC command causes fcntl() to duplicate a file descriptor and set the close-on-exec flag from the beginning.

• Block reservations have been added to the ext2 filesystem.

• The Linux security module interface is now a non-module interface: the ability to load security modules on the fly has been removed.

• File-based capability masks are now supported.

Important changes visible to kernel developers include:

• As expected, the i386/x86_64 architecture merger has happened. The result is a single architecture, called "x86," which can be built for 32-bit and 64-bit processors.

• The Video4Linux layer has some new internal support for composite devices involving more than one driver (many V4L2 devices involve, at a minimum, separate drivers for the controller and the sensor).

• Also in Video4Linux: the video-buf layer has been replaced with a more generic implementation which works with a wider range of devices (including USB devices and those which do not support scatter/gather DMA).

• The large receive offload (LRO) support layer has been merged into the networking subsystem.

• The NAPI interface used in network drivers has been reworked to better support devices with multiple transmit queues.

• The networking layer has a new function for printing MAC addresses:

      char *print_mac(char *buf, const u8 *addr);
  

  The buf buffer should be declared with DECLARE_MAC_BUF(); the output is suitable for formatting in printk() with "%s".

• The NETIF_F_LLTX (lockless transmit) flag for network devices has been deprecated and should not be used in new code.

• The functions ktime_sub_us() and ktime_sub_ns() have been added; they subtract the given number of microseconds or nanoseconds from a ktime_t value.

• The hard_header() method has been removed from struct net_device; it has been replaced by a per-protocol header_ops structure pointer.

• The debugfs filesystem has some new functions (debugfs_create_x8(), debugfs_create_x16(), debugfs_create_x32()) which make it easy to export files containing hexadecimal numbers.

• Various small sysfs-related API changes have been made. The name field has been removed from the kobject structure. The prototypes of the user-event callbacks have been changed. Many of the subsystem-related calls have been removed - subsystems never really did much of anything anyway; get_bus() and put_bus() are also gone.

• A new value DMA_MASK_NONE can be stored in the device structure dma_mask field to indicate that the device is incapable of performing DMA.

• The VFS has a couple of new address space operations (write_begin() and write_end()) aimed at fixing some deadlock scenarios; see this article for more information.

• The scatterlist chaining patches have been merged and many parts of the kernel have been updated to use this feature.

• The CFLAGS= and CPPFLAGS= options now work with the kernel build system in the expected way: they add flags to be passed to the C compiler and preprocessor, respectively.

• The prototype for slab constructor callbacks has changed to:

      void (*ctor)(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object);
  

  The unused flags argument has been removed and the order of the other two arguments has been reversed to match other slab functions.

• The DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED() macro has been removed.

• The long-deprecated SA_* interrupt flags have been removed in favor of the IRQF_* equivalents.

• A number of block layer utilities have seen prototype changes. The most evident change, perhaps, is bio_endio() and the associated bio_end_io_t callback:

      void bio_endio(struct bio *bio, int error);
      typedef void (bio_end_io_t) (struct bio *, int);
  

  These functions now always completes the entire BIO, so the size argument has been removed.

As of this writing, the 2.6.24 merge window can be expected to remain open for up to another week. So expect more changes to go into the mainline before this development cycle goes into the stabilization phase.

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Fair user scheduling and other scheduler patches

The Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) was merged for the 2.6.23 kernel. One CFS feature which did not get in, though, was the group scheduling facility. Group scheduling makes the CFS fairness algorithm operate in a hierarchical fashion: processes are divided into groups, and, within each group, processes are scheduled fairly against one another. At the higher level, each group as a whole is given a fair share of the processor. The grouping of processes is done in user space in a highly flexible manner; the control groups (formerly "process containers") mechanism allows a management daemon to classify processes according to almost any policy.

One of the reasons why group scheduling did not get into 2.6.23 is that the control groups patch was not ready for merging. Your editor had expected control groups to go in for 2.6.24, but, as of this writing, it is looking like that patch might still be under too much active development to get into the mainline. The group scheduling feature is not waiting, though; it has been merged for the 2.6.24 release. In the absence of control groups, the general group scheduling mechanism will not be available. Over the last few months, though, the group scheduler has evolved a new feature which will allow it to be used without control groups, and which implements what is likely to be the most common use case.

That feature is per-user scheduling: creating a separate group for each user running on the system and using those groups to give each user a fair share of the processor. Since the groups are created implicitly by the scheduler, there is no separate need for the control groups interface. Instead, if the "fair user" configuration option is selected, the per-user group scheduling will go into effect with no further intervention by the administrator required.

Of course, once the system provides fair per-user scheduling, administrators will immediately want to make it unfair by arranging for some users to get more CPU time than others. The age-old technique of raising the priority of that crucial administrative wesnoth process still works, but it is a crude and transparent tool. It would be much nicer to be able to tweak the scheduler so that certain users get a higher share of the CPU for the running of their crucial games video diagnostic tools.

To achieve such ends with the 2.6.24 scheduler, it will only be necessary to go to the new sysfs directory /sys/kernel/uids. There will be a subdirectory there for every active user ID on the system, and each subdirectory will contain a file called cpu_share. The integer value found in that file defaults to 1024. For the purposes of adjusting scheduling, all that really matters with the cpu_share value is its ratio between two users. If one user's cpu_share is set to 2048, that user will get twice as much CPU time as any one user whose value remains at the default 1024. The end result is that adjusting the scheduling of the CPU between users is quite easy for the administrator to do.

A rather large number of other patches was also merged for 2.6.24. Most of those are cleanups and small improvements. Some of the math within the scheduler has been made less intensive, and fairness has been improved in a number of ways. There is also a new facility for performing guest CPU accounting for virtualized systems running under KVM. It's a lot of patches, but the rate of change in the core CPU scheduler should be beginning to slow down again.

There are some other scheduler-related patches in the works, though. A couple of them address the problem of getting realtime tasks into a CPU promptly. Normally, the CPU scheduler will make a significant effort to avoid moving processes between CPUs because the cost of that migration (resulting from lost memory cache contents) is high. If a realtime process wants to run, though, the system is obligated to give it a processor even if there is a price to be paid in terms of overall throughput. The current CPU scheduler, however, will cause a realtime process to languish if a higher-priority process is running on the same CPU, even if other processors are available in the system.

Fixing this problem involves a couple of different patches. This one from Steven Rostedt addresses the situation where the scheduling of one realtime task causes a lower-priority (but still realtime) task to be pushed out of the CPU. Rather than leave that luckless task in the run queue, Steven's patch searches through the other processors on the system to find the one running the lowest-priority process. If a processor running a sufficiently low-priority process is found, the displaced realtime process is moved over to that processor.

Gregory Haskins has posted a similar patch which addresses a slightly different situation: a realtime task has just been awakened, but the CPU it is on is already running a higher-priority process. Once again, a search of the system to find the lowest-priority CPU is performed, with the realtime process being moved if a suitable home is found. In either case, the moved process will suffer a small performance hit as it finds a completely cold cache waiting for it. But it will still be able to respond much more quickly to the real world than it would if it were sitting on a run queue somewhere; that, of course, is what realtime scheduling is all about.

Another issue which has come up in some situations is that the accuracy of fair scheduling decisions is constrained by the scheduler tick frequency. In the absence of external events (such as I/O completions), one process can only preempt another when the periodic timer tick comes in. As a result, processes might run longer than their time slices would otherwise allow. The scheduler will compensate for the extra time used by that process by causing it to wait longer than it otherwise would for its next time slice. The result is fair scheduling, but higher latencies than one might like.

Peter Zijlstra has posted a solution to this problem: a patch which uses the high-resolution timer mechanism to preempt processes exactly at the end of their time slices. When the scheduler notes that a time slice will run out between timer ticks, it arranges for a special one-time timer interrupt at the time slice expiration time. When that interrupt arrives, the running process can be turfed out right on schedule. As a result, the process will not overrun its time slice and will not have to face a longer-than-usual wait before it is able to run again.

Mike Galbraith has reported that this patch results in reduced context switching on his system, and higher throughput as well. So it looks like the right solution to the problem, at least in the absence of a true dynamic tick mechanism. The current dynamic tick code turns off the periodic clock interrupt when the processor is idle, but that interrupt continues to run when the processor is busy. In a fully dynamic environment, periodic ticks would never be used and special interrupts at the end of time slices would be the normal way of doing business. Implementing full dynamic tick is a big job, though; in the meantime the addition of an occasional extra tick can help the scheduler to do a quick and accurate job.

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Some VFS address space operations changes

Deeply buried in the 2.6.24 patch stream is a set of significant changes to the VFS layer internal API. The core motivation behind this work is to prevent some deadlock problem which, with the old API, could not be avoided without taking a significant performance hit. Anybody maintaining an out-of-tree filesystem will want to have a look and be prepared to start fixing up their code.

In the older VFS API, two address space operations are provided by filesystems to support writes to files:

    int (*prepare_write)(struct file *file, struct page *page, 
    			 unsigned begin, unsigned end);
    int (*commit_write)(struct file *file, struct page *page, 
    			 unsigned begin, unsigned end);

A call to prepare_write() notifies the filesystem that the VFS intends to write bytes begin..end of file into the given page. It is then the filesystem's responsibility to make sure that the write will work (allocating blocks if need be) and, if a partial block is to be written, the filesystem should populate page with the full block's data. Later on, the call to commit_write() tells the filesystem that the data has been copied into page and can be committed to disk.

The problem with this API is that the VFS is expected to pass a locked page into prepare_write(). There are a number of scenarios which can lead to attempts to lock that page twice, bringing the system to a halt. To avoid this problem, Nick Piggin has created replacements for prepare_write() and commit_write():

    int (*write_begin)(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
		       loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
		       struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
    int (*write_end)(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
		     loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
		     struct page *page, void *fsdata);

There are a number of changes, but the key is the fact that a page is no longer passed into write_begin(). Instead, that function should allocate the page itself and return it (locked) to the VFS. The call to write_end() indicates that the write is complete; it should unlock the page and update the inode's i_size field.

The new copied parameter is also important: it is the number of bytes which were actually copied into the page, which might be smaller than len predicted. Some of the possible deadlock scenarios involve the handling of page faults while the destination page is locked; a trivial example is when the data being written to the page is also being read from that page. With the new API, a page fault terminates the copying of the data, allowing the page to be unlocked. The fault can be handled while the destination page is unlocked, avoiding the deadlock problems.

The possibility of short writes does impose an extra cost on filesystems: any data which may be overwritten must be read in regardless, just in case the write operation ends prematurely. There are times, however, when the VFS knows that writes will go the full length; in particular, writes from buffers which are in kernel space must succeed. When such a write is executed, the VFS will pass the AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE flag to write_begin() to let the filesystem know that short writes are not a possibility.

For now, the prepare_write() and commit_write() VFS methods are still supported in the kernel. If a filesystem does not provide the newer functions, the older ones will be used. The long-term plan almost certainly involves the removal of those methods, though; they cannot be supported in a way which is simultaneously safe and fast.

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Patches and updates

Kernel trees

• Greg Kroah-Hartman: Linux 2.6.23.1. (October 12, 2007)

• Andrew Morton: 2.6.23-mm1. (October 14, 2007)

• Steven Rostedt: 2.6.23-rt1. (October 14, 2007)

• Adrian Bunk: Linux 2.6.16.55. (October 15, 2007)

Core kernel code

• Huang, Ying: kexec based hibernation -v5. (October 11, 2007)

• Steven Rostedt: push RT tasks when overloaded (via schedule). (October 14, 2007)

• Gregory Haskins: RT: (RFC) RT-Overload/Sched enhancements. (October 15, 2007)

• Ingo Molnar: scheduler updates for v2.6.24. (October 15, 2007)

• Peter Zijlstra: sched: high-res preemption tick. (October 15, 2007)

• Gautham R Shenoy: Refcount Based Cpu-Hotplug Revisit.. (October 16, 2007)

Development tools

• Steven Rostedt: ketchup-0.9.8-rt1. (October 14, 2007)

• Jason Wessel: KGDB: Request to merge KGDB. (October 15, 2007)

• Andy Whitcroft: update checkpatch.pl to version 0.11. (October 17, 2007)

Device drivers

• Mauro Carvalho Chehab: V4L/DVB changes for 2.6.24. (October 11, 2007)

• Greg KH: USB patches for 2.6.23. (October 14, 2007)

• Greg KH: PCI patches for 2.6.23. (October 14, 2007)

• Greg KH: driver core patches for 2.6.23. (October 15, 2007)

• Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: IDE updates (part 1). (October 15, 2007)

• Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: IDE updates (part 2). (October 14, 2007)

• Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: IDE updates (part 3). (October 17, 2007)

• Dmitry Torokhov: Input updates for 2.6.24-rc0. (October 14, 2007)

• Jean Delvare: i2c updates for 2.6.24. (October 14, 2007)

• James Bottomley: SCSI updates for 2.6.24. (October 15, 2007)

• Jeff Garzik: libata update. (October 15, 2007)

• Jeff Garzik: forcedeth interrupt and task overhaul, v2. (October 17, 2007)

• Michael Wu: Add rtl8180 wireless driver. (October 15, 2007)

• Li Yang: drivers/ata: add support to Freescale 3.0Gbps SATA Controller. (October 15, 2007)

• Jaroslav Kysela: alsa-git merge request. (October 17, 2007)

• Nick Piggin: rewrite ramdisk. (October 17, 2007)

• Lennert Buytenhek: Marvell Orion SoC ethernet driver. (October 17, 2007)

• Lennert Buytenhek: Marvell Orion USB host support. (October 17, 2007)

Filesystems and block I/O

• David Howells: Remove iget() and read_inode() [try #3]. (October 15, 2007)

• Evgeniy Polyakov: Distributed storage. Bug fixes.. (October 15, 2007)

• Aneesh Kumar K.V: ext4: Support large files. (October 15, 2007)

• Aneesh Kumar K.V: ext4: Add support for 48 bit inode i_blocks.. (October 15, 2007)

• Theodore Ts'o: ext4 update. (October 17, 2007)

Memory management

• Matt Mackall: maps3: pagemap monitoring v3. (October 16, 2007)

Networking

• Satoshi OSHIMA: UDP memory accounting and limitation(take 5). (October 15, 2007)

• Pavel Emelyanov: Consolidate IP fragment management. (October 15, 2007)

• Pavel Emelyanov: Next step in consolidating the IP fragment management. (October 16, 2007)

• KOVACS Krisztian: Transparent Proxying Patches, Take 5. (October 15, 2007)

• Laszlo Attila Toth: Interface groups. (October 16, 2007)

Architecture-specific

• Mark Langsdorf: architectural pstate driver for powernow-k8. (October 15, 2007)

Security-related

• Casey Schaufler: [PATCH] Version 7 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. (October 14, 2007)

• Casey Schaufler: [PATCH] Version 8 (2.6.23) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. (October 17, 2007)

• James Morris: SELinux patches for 2.6.24. (October 15, 2007)

• Tetsuo Handa: TOMOYO Linux - MAC based on process invocation history.. (October 15, 2007)

• David Howells: Introduce credential record. (October 15, 2007)

• Max Kellermann: /proc Security Hooks. (October 17, 2007)

Virtualization and containers

• Jeremy Fitzhardinge: REVIEW: Xen patches for 2.6.24. (October 15, 2007)

Benchmarks and bugs

• Chris Mason: More Large blocksize benchmarks. (October 16, 2007)

Miscellaneous

• Tsugikazu Shibata: Linux 2.6 release history in the Google Calendar. (October 11, 2007)

• Kay Sievers: udev 116 release. (October 15, 2007)

• Michael Renzmann: ath5k mailing lists started. (October 16, 2007)

• Stephen Hemminger: iproute2-2.6.23. (October 17, 2007)

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Distributions

News and Editorials

Slackware current takes off

Slackware 12.0 was released July 2, 2007, and since then the slackware current changelog has been quiet. But no more.

On October 17, 2007 Slackware Patrick Volkerding released all the changes that have happened so far in the next version of Slackware.

So far much of the work has gone into updating packages with security issues. Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird have been upgraded to 2.0.0.6 and Seamonkey is at version 1.1.4. Other packages with security updates include BIND, xpdf, qt, poppler, gimp, tcpdump, samba, PHP, OpenSSH, OpenSSL and Java packages.

Lots of X packages have been updated and the current version of X.Org is 7.3. Many KDE packages have also been updated to 3.5.8. The kernel in use is 2.6.23.1. It seems likely that all of these packages will be updated to newer versions before the next version of Slackware becomes finalized.

To see what packages are in Slackware current, try the Slackware Package Browser.

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New Releases

rPath Linux 1.0.7 available for x86 and x86_64

rPath Linux has released updated images for rPath Linux 1. "The new images incorporate updates to the installation process and all package updates released as of September 26, 2007. In particular, the installation images and installed system now include a 2.6.22.7 Linux kernel, enabling installation on more recent hardware not supported by previous installation media. (Linux kernels for Xen support are 2.6.16.33 in this release.)" Current rPath users should update using Conary.

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Ubuntu 7.10 release candidate available

The release candidate for the Ubuntu 7.10 "gutsy" release is now available. "We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. The final release of version 7.10 is scheduled for 18 October 2007 and will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers." See the release notes for details about Ubuntu 7.10.

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Distribution News

Debian GNU/Linux

Bits from the DebianGis Team

DebianGis is a sub-project launched at the end of 2004. The main goal of DebianGis has been making Debian the best GNU/Linux distribution oriented to serious Geographical Information Systems (GIS) users and applications. Click below to see a project status report.

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Bits from the Testing Security team

Here's a status report from the Debian Testing Security team. "Thanks to an increased size of our team, Debian Lenny is in good shape with respect to security and has been so for some time. We expect to be able to keep up this level of security support (at least) until the release of Lenny."

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Bits from Tcl/Tk team

Debian's Tcl/Tk team has previously announced to all interested maintainers (those whose packages depend on Tcl/Tk) that there is an ongoing effort to draft a policy for team maintenance of Tcl/Tk main packages and their modules/extensions. This announcement is to the larger audience of all maintainers in order to inform also people who could be interested in packaging Tcl/Tk related packages in the next future. Click below for more information.

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Fedora

The Fedora Fonts SIG is open

The Fedora Fonts Special Interest Group has been created. The group is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in Fedora. If you are interested in the Fonts SIG, please read the wiki, join the mailing list and get involved.

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Max Spevack's Ohio Linux Fest Keynote Talk

Fedora's Max Spevack gave a keynote at the Ohio Linux Fest. The video is available as a torrent.

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Gentoo Linux

Upcoming masking of dev-lang/php-4* and packages depending on it

If you are using PHP4 in Gentoo you'll want to read this. "We, the Gentoo PHP team, are going to mask =dev-lang/php-4* and all packages explicitly depending on this version of php around October 18th (i.e. the whole dev-php4/ category (36 packages) and www-apps/knowledgetree, unless there is a php5-compatible version by the time of masking; bug 194894). This step is necessary as there is hardly any upstream activity anymore."

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Slackware Linux

Slackware glibc-zoneinfo

Slackware has new glibc-zoneinfo packages available for all versions of Slackware from 8.1 to 12.0. These packages update the timezone tables to the latest versions.

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SUSE Linux and openSUSE

Advance notice of discontinuation of regular support for SLES 8

SUSE Security has announced that the regular maintenance, security and L3 support for the SUSE LINUX Enterprise 8 line of products will end after November 2007. Extended Support for 2 years is available for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 product only.

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Ubuntu family

Coming Changes in Launchpad 1.1.10

Ubuntu's Launchpad 1.1.10 is due for release October 24. Click below for information on changes that are planned for the next Launchpad release. These are changes that may affect the way you use Launchpad, rather than a full list of new features that will appear in 1.1.10.

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New Distributions

KlikIt-Linux 0.1-7B

The first beta release of a new distribution called KlikIt-Linux is out. "Ease of installation, ease of use, an attractive GUI, and solid technology are no longer unique features in Linux distros, these are the expectations. So, yeah, we have those things, but what separates one distro from another, is the quality of the community. We go to great lengths to ensure that the community has an atmosphere conducive to the free expression of their ideas, thoughts, wishes, and to the forging of lasting friendships." KlikIt is based on Kubuntu.

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Distribution Newsletters

Fedora Weekly News Issue 105

The Fedora Weekly News for October 8, 2007 looks at the Fedora Fonts SIG announcement, the Ontario Linux Fest, a Fedora Marketing Meeting, Killing Kittens with Yum-updatesd, and much more.

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Gentoo Weekly News

The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for October 1, 2007 looks at Gentoo PPC updates. The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for October 8, 2007 covers Gentoo VDR updates and Gentoo PHP masks php-4.

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Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #61

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter for October 13, 2007 covers the release candidate of Ubuntu 7.10, learning more about Ubuntu at Ubuntu Open Week, Gutsy release parties, another Ubuntu Forums interview, new MOTU team member Laurent Bigonville, and much more.

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 224

The DistroWatch Weekly for October 15, 2007 is out. "Following the openSUSE 10.3 release two weeks ago and the new Mandriva Linux 2008 announced last Tuesday, the rapid succession of major Linux distribution versions continues this week with Ubuntu 7.10. Will the developers of these projects succeed in enticing more computer users to switch to Linux? Chris Smart tries to answer the question in the upcoming issues of DistroWatch Weekly by reviewing these new products - today he installs openSUSE 10.3 on his trusty MacBook to see how it fares. In the news section: Mandriva simplifies its product range, Ubuntu prepares for another download rush, and Fedora embraces artwork developed by the user community. Finally, don't miss two interesting interviews with Lucas Villa Real from GoboLinux and Gerard Beekmans from the Linux From Scratch project."

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Distribution meetings

UDS Schedule Announced

The schedule for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit has been announced. This Summit will be held in Boston Massachusetts, USA starting October 29 and ending November 2, 2007.

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DebConf8 to be held from August 2nd to August 17th 2008

The DebConf team has decided on having the next DebConf during the first two weeks of August 2008, in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The whole event will be starting on August 2nd and ending on August 17th with DebCamp taking place from the 3rd till the 9th and DebConf from the 10th till the 16th. Registration will open in late 2007.

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Newsletters and articles of interest

Splashtop: Embedded Linux For Your Motherboard (Information Week)

Information Week looks at Splashtop. "Every so often I bump into yet another example of Linux being used in creative ways. Here's a new one: an ASUSTek motherboard, the P5E3, which ships with a built-in Linux variant called Splashtop. Splashtop's a small but fairly useful Linux desktop environment that boots and runs entirely in RAM. The current iteration of Splashtop features network connectivity (both wired and wireless), a rebadged version of Firefox 2.0, and the Skype VoIP client (version 1.3) -- a small but useful clutch of tools. I read through a sneak preview of the product at Phoronix.com, and the impression I got was that it's still pretty rudimentary but that it will over time be expanded into something far more functional."

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Red Hat Global Desktop to appear in November (Linux-Watch)

DesktopLinux takes a look at the Red Hat Global Desktop, due for a November release. "The new desktop will be built on the foundation of RHEL 5.1 According to Jonathan Blandford, Red Hat's engineering manager for client solutions, RHGD will use the GNOME 2.16 desktop as its standard interface. It will also include "Firefox, Evolution, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and other popular Linux desktop applications," Blandford said."

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Small Linux Distros For Every Occasion (Enterprise Networking Planet)

Carla Schroder takes a look at some of the smaller Linux distributions. "One of the (very many) areas in which Linux has pulled ahead of the pack is with live, complete Linux distributions on every form of removable media. Tiny Linuxes to full-blow kitchen sink Linuxes boot and run from USB sticks and drives, Compact Flash cards, CDs and DVDs; so they never need to touch the hard drive, or even have a hard drive present. Some of them run entirely in memory. Some are smart enough to use the swap partition on the hard drive, if one is available. There are different ways of preserving data and configurations, the main point being you can still save data and configurations."

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HowtoForge sets up Mandriva 2008

This week HowtoForge sets up the perfect server and the perfect desktop with Mandriva 2008 Free.

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Linux Product Insider - On Your Marks, Get Set...Gutsy Gibbon! (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal blogger James Gray attended a press conference with Mark Shuttleworth. "The goal of today's meeting was to prime the 'press pump' and get us talking heads to turn our attention to the new Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", which will roll out on Thursday, October 18th. (The other variants such as Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc. will also be available then.) Shuttleworth focused on three key areas - the Ubuntu development process, desktop innovations and server innovations."

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All systems go for Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Desktop launch (DesktopLinux)

DesktopLinux takes a look at Ubuntu's Gusty Gibbon, due for an October 18 launch. "The latest version of Ubuntu includes numerous new features. In particular, its hardware support has been improved. Besides better plug-and-play configuration for printers, the new Ubuntu includes automatic firmware installation for Broadcom Wi-Fi cards."

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Ubuntu: It's not just for desktops anymore (Linux-Watch)

Linux-Watch looks at Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition. "In a Linux-Watch interview, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO and Ubuntu's founder, said the server team has been, and will continue, to grow. Canonical is also working directly with server OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to ensure compatibility. Specifically, Ubuntu Server Edition is available and optimized for x86, AMD64, EM64T (Intel Core & Xeon), and Sun SPARC architectures."

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Interviews

Jaka "lynx" Kranjc Interview (Mage Power)

Mage Power talks with Source Mage developer Jaka "lynx" Kranjc. "What was it about Source Mage that made you decide to stick with it? The package manager is featureful, fast and mostly written in bash! As most distributions, contains all the packages I need and I don't like gui configuration tools too much (hard to get right), I judge them by their package managers. That's the real added value for me."

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Its Linux and I did it my way. An interview with Gerard Beekmans (ITtoolbox Blogs)

ITtoolbox Blogs has an interview with Gerard Beekmans. "Locutus: Who are you and what is your involvement with LFS? Gerard: My name is Gerard Beekmans and I'm the founder of the LFS project. I developed the initial process and strategies of what became LFS about eight years ago. Nowadays I am not involved so much with the day-to-day develop and maintenance anymore due to time constraints in my professional career. Instead, I am more involved with the management of the people who do still have the time for the daily work that goes into LFS."

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GoboLinux: An Interview with Lucas Villa Real (Packt Publishing)

Packt Publishing interviews GoboLinux developer Lucas Villa Real. "GoboLinux is popular for its filesystem hierarchy which breaks away from the traditional Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). So basically you wouldn't find any /etc or /usr directries under Gobo. In turn, files of a particular program are stored in their own separate directories like /Programs/GCC/2.95.3/lib. This means Gobo's package management system has its advantages since users can now install multiple versions of the same program without conflicts. To find out more about Gobo and why it does things the way it does, I talk to one of its main developers Lucas Villa Real."

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Distribution reviews

openSUSE 10.3 in review: A solid Linux desktop (TuxMachines)

TuxMachines reviews openSUSE 10.3. "There are a few different ways one can install openSUSE 10.3. On my test box (a $150 Fry's special based on an AMD Sempron 2200+ CPU, which now has 640MB of RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce MX 440 video card, and a larger hard drive), I used the "KDE-only" and the "non-OSS add-on" CDs. (A "GNOME-only" installation CD is also available.) The advantages of having KDE and GNOME installation CDs is that they take a lot less time to download than the full installation DVD, and why bother if you're never going to install the other desktop environment? (For fans of Xfce, you can also install Xfce 4.4.1. Also, if you want to beta-test the next version of KDE, you can install KDE 4 alongside KDE 3.)"

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Development

Zenoss releases Zenoss Core 2.1

Zenoss is both a company and an open-source IT management project with commercial extensions that is run by this corporate and development team. The Zenoss overview states:

The About Zenoss document clarifies the company's methodology: "Through our integrated, model-driven product and by taking a new approach to management software that combines the benefits of open source with the best aspects of commercial development, we offer a new alternative." The Zenoss Offerings Overview explains the capabilities and services that are available for the free software and the various levels of commercial subscriptions. The free community edition includes Zenoss Core, the Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB), an inventory and change tracking system, availability monitoring, performance monitoring, event management and core reports. Numerous additional capabilities are available by paying for three increasing levels of support.

Zenoss runs on the RedHat Enterprise, Fedora, Ubuntu and SUSE Linux distributions as well as FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Zenoss is able to monitor Unix/Linux systems, various networking devices and machines running Windows and VMWare. The Zenoss FAQ document covers other project details and has installation and configuration details. A walk through the screenshots will show the wide variety of system control and monitoring capabilities.

Version 2.1 of Zenoss Core was recently announced: "This release marks a significant update for many areas of Zenoss Core, including a Google Maps mashup, a network topology map, Java application management, powerful graphing capabilities and an Ajax-based drag and drop dashboard. Zenoss Core 2.1 is now available with powerful new features, extending both its network management and application management capabilities with first-of-its-kind network visualization features and native management of Java-based applications. Zenoss Core 2.1 also adds advanced graphing capabilities and personalized dashboard enabling organizations of all sizes gain easy access to an affordable, powerful and integrated IT management solution."

If you have a large, possibly geographically distributed, heterogeneous network of systems that you need to monitor, Zenoss Core is worthy of consideration.

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System Applications

Clusters and Grids

announcing allmydata.org Tahoe version 0.6.1

Version 0.6.1 of allmydata.org Tahoe has been announced. "We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.6.1 of allmydata.org "Tahoe", a secure, decentralized storage grid under a free-software licence. This is the successor to v0.6, which was released September 24, 2007. This release focusses on packaging, documentation, and usability improvements."

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Database Software

Postgres Weekly News

The October 14, 2007 edition of the Postgres Weekly News is online with the latest PostgreSQL DBMS articles and resources.

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Mail Software

Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server: 1.3.3.8 Released (SourceForge)

Version 1.3.3.8 of the Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server project has been announced. "The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists, Bayesian, and basic anti-virus filtering to rid the planet of the blight of unsolicited email (UCE). This release fixes a possible crash when using the Email interface and has some minor improvements to the admin GUI."

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Networking Tools

Release of iptables 1.4.0rc1

Version 1.4.0rc1 of iptables, a network security package, is out. "This is the first release candidate of the new iptables branch 1.4. This release candidate adds support for the generic xtables infrastructure that strongly improves IPv6 support. Also several accumulated bugfixed are included. Test it!"

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Web Site Development

TikiWiki 1.9.8.1 security release (SourceForge)

Version 1.9.8.1 of TikiWiki has been announced. The project description says: "Powerful multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware: File/Image gallery, Article, Blog, Tracker/Forms, Forum, Poll/Survey & Quiz, Newsletter, Calendar, Drawing, Bookmarks, FAQ, Banner ads, Categories, Spreadsheet, Maps, Workflow, Search, Theme control, WAP, VoiceXML, RSS, LDAP, Stats... TikiWiki 1.9.8.1 fixes a critical security vulnerability. All users should upgrade."

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Desktop Applications

Animation Software

Synfig Irregular News

The October 11, 2007 edition of the Synfig Irregular News covers the latest news from the Synfig 2D vector animation studio project.

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Audio Applications

AlsaPlayer 0.99.80-rc4 is out

Version 0.99.80-rc4 of AlsaPlayer, a multi-threaded PCM player, has been announced. "This is a bugfix and feature improvement release. Madej added a song title in the title bar option. Several bugs was fixed. Among them, libmad was fixed in configure and a possible horrible crash when upgrading from a gtk1 AlsaPlayer version was fixed. Every user is encouraged to upgrade."

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Ardour 2.1 released

Version 2.1 of Ardour, a multi-track audio workstation, has been announced. "Ready to make music on those long nights after the clocks change up north? Ready to make music in the bright summer evenings down south? Ardour 2.1 squeaks out in time for both hemispheres to enjoy it. A few brand new features, including native (X11-free) OS X support, and a heap of important bug fixes, are there to make the upgrade worth your time."

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Business Applications

GanttProject 2.0.5 released (SourceForge)

Version 2.0.5 of GanttProject has been announced. "GanttProject is a project scheduling application written in Java and featuring gantt chart, resource management, calendaring, import/export (MS Project, HTML, PDF, spreadsheets). Learn more on http://ganttproject.[biz]. GanttProject 2.0.5 is a maintenance release focused on adding custom fields of tasks and resources to the available export formats".

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Desktop Environments

GNOME Software Announcements

The following new GNOME software has been announced this week:

• Accerciser 1.0.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Dasher 4.6.1 (bug fixes)
• Deskbar-Applet 2.20.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Evince 2.20.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Evolution 2.12.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Eye of GNOME 2.20.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• gbrainy 0.3 (new features and bug fixes)
• gcalctool 5.20.2 (bug fix and translation work)
• GDM2 2.20.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• gedit 2.20.2 (bug fixes and translation work)
• GLib 2.14.2 (bug fixes and translation work)
• gnome-control-center 2.20.1 (new features, bug fixes and translation work)
• Gnome Games 2.20.1 (bug fixes)
• gnome-keyring 2.20.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• GOK 1.3.7 (build fix)
• gThumb 2.10.7 (bug fixes and translation work)
• GTK+ 2.12.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• gtk-engines 2.12.2 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Hotwire 0.599 (new features and bug fixes)
• Seahorse 2.20.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• swfdec 0.5.3 (new features and code cleanup)
• Tomboy 0.8.1 (bug fixes and translation work)
• Vala 0.1.4 (new features, bug fixes and documentation work)

You can find more new GNOME software releases at gnomefiles.org.

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KDE 3.5.8 released; KDE 4.0 Beta 3 coming up

Version 3.5.8 of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) has been released. "Today, KDE 3.5.8 has been released as the latest bugfix and translation update for KDE's stable 3.5 series. Improvements in KDE 3.5.8 cover: Fixes in KHTML, KDE's HTML rendering component Fixes and improvements in KDE's Mail and Organizer components Improvements in various graphics applications, such as kolourpaint (a simple painting program) and KPDF, the PDF viewer".

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KDE 3.5.8 release fixes hundreds of bugs (KDE.News)

KDE.News presents further coverage of the recently released KDE version 3.5.8. "The KDE community today released KDE 3.5.8. While the developers' main focus lies on finishing KDE 4.0, the stable 3.5 series remains the desktop of choice for the time being. It is proven, stable and well supported. The 3.5.8 release with its literally hundreds of bugfixes has again improved the users' experience."

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KDE Commit-Digest (KDE.News)

The October 14, 2007 edition of the KDE Commit-Digest has been announced. The content summary says: "Replacement of the "toolbox", and a new KRunner in Plasma, with many applets moving from playground into extragear in KDE SVN. SuperKaramba is now fully integrated into Plasma. A move away from KDEPrint facilities, towards more basic functionality for KDE 4.0. More work on restoring the functionality of the Klipper applet. Basic sound support in Parley..."

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KDE Software Announcements

The following new KDE software has been announced this week:

• Alabastra 0.2b (unspecified)
• Convert .ps to .pdf service menu 1.0 (unspecified)
• CpuFreq Tray 0.9 (unspecified)
• gaim-status 1.2.4 (unspecified)
• GradeL 0.8.12 (unspecified)
• Hyper Video Converter 0.95 (new features)
• KBackup 0.5.3 (bug fixes and translation work)
• kdesvn 0.14.0 (new features and bug fixes)
• KGtk 0.9.2 (code cleanup, bug fixes and translation work)
• Kisa 0.40 (new features and bug fixes)
• KSquirrel 0.7.2 (new features and bug fixes)
• Kvkbd 0.4.6 (bug fix)
• lnkMusic 0.2.21 (new features and bug fixes)
• pidgin-status 1.0.0 (unspecified)
• PySMSsend 1.24-r1 (new features)
• PySMSsend 1.24 (new features)
• QChat 0.2.2 (new features)
• VariCAD 2007 3.00 (new features)
• WineRar 0.5b (bug fix)
• WineRar 0.52b (bug fix)

You can find more new KDE software releases at kde-apps.org.

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Xorg Software Announcements

The following new Xorg software has been announced this week:

• xf86-input-mouse 1.2.3 (bug fix)
• xf86-video-amd 2.7.7.3 (code cleanup and bug fix)
• xf86-video-ati 6.7.195 (code cleanup, build and bug fixes)

More information can be found on the X.Org Foundation wiki.

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Games

Robocode: 1.4.7 has been released (SourceForge)

Version 1.4.7 of Robocode is out with bug fixes and other changes. "Robocode is a Java programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen. The motto of Robocode is: Build the best, destroy the rest!"

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Interoperability

Wine 0.9.47 released

Version 0.9.47 of Wine has been announced. "What's new in this release: New scheme for OpenGL support in child windows. Lots of fixes for regression test failures. A Tahoma replacement font. Lots of bug fixes."

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Music Applications

gigedit 0.1.0 announced

Version 0.1.0 of gigedit, an instrument editor for gig files, has been announced. "With gigedit it is possible to modify existing, as well as to create new Gigasampler format instruments from scratch, which are not only accepted by LinuxSampler, but now also by Gigastudio. You can run gigedit as stand-alone application or "attached" to LinuxSampler. The latter case allows you to play and edit instruments at the same time, making all your modifications immediately audible, without having to reload the instruments into a sampler."

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LV2 vocoder plugin released

The first release of the LV2 vocoder has been announced. "LADSPA plugin created by Josh Green is basically an adaption of Achim Settelmeier's Vocoder program to LADSPA."

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News Readers

Liferea 1.4.5b announced (SourceForge)

Stable version 1.4.5b of Liferea has been announced. "Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a GTK desktop news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs. The project focus is on simplicity and easy installation. This release fixes a crash when running Liferea with sqlite 3.5.x. Please upgrade!"

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Video Applications

Theora beta2 released

The beta 2 release of the theora video CODEC is out with the following changes: "Fix a crash bug on char-is-unsigned architectures (PowerPC), Fix a buffer sizing issue that caused rare encoder crashes, Fix a buffer alignment issue, Build fixes for MingW32, MSVC and Improved format documentation."

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Web Browsers

Mozilla Links Newsletter

The October 11, 2007 edition of the Mozilla Links Newsletter is online, take a look for the latest news about the Mozilla browser and related projects.

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Miscellaneous

Genius reaches 1.0.0 (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop announces the 1.0.0 release of Genius. "One of the oldest GNOME projects, the Genius calculator reaches 1.0.0 after 10 years in development. I have previously said that Genius is not going to be 1.0 until it can compute eigenvalues for general matrices. Now with RayleighQuotientIteration function, this is partially satisfied. Anyway, this was the original GNOME desktop calculator appearing first time as part of GNOME in the GNOME v0.11 tarball in January 1998."

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A set of linguistics tools: 14/10/2007 OOo2-pack (it) (SourceForge)

Version 14/10/2007 of Linguistico has been announced. "Linguistico is a linguistics tools project based on Italian language. Tools are: dictionaries, thesaurus, words definitions, scripts, programs, ... For: OpenOffice.org ThunderBird Mozilla FireFox - MySpell MyThes Aspell HunSpell."

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

The October 9, 2007 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out with new Caml language articles.

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Java

GNU Classpath 0.96 released

Version 0.96 of the GNU Classpath essential libraries for Java has been announced. "This release is primarily a maintenance release. The recent release of the majority of Sun's class library as Free Software on May the 8th, under the auspices of the OpenJDK project (http://openjdk.java.net) has changed the position of GNU Classpath within the community and recent efforts have focused on bringing together Classpath and OpenJDK code under the umbrella of IcedTea (http://icedtea.classpath.org) and on using the new OpenJDK code within existing Free runtime environments such as cacao (http://www.cacaojvm.org/) and IKVM (http://www.ikvm.net/). We hope to extend support and work together with the OpenJDK community over time."

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IcedTea 1.4 released

Version 1.4 of IcedTea has been announced, it features numerous bug fixes. "The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project."

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Lisp

GNU CLISP 2.42 released

Version 2.42 of GNU CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation, has been announced. "Among other things, this version adds bindings to GTK+ v2 and the GNU DataBase Manager, introduces a MOP protocol for structures, improves CLX, and fixes many bugs."

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Python

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links

The October 17, 2007 edition of the Python-URL! is online with a new collection of Python article links.

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XML

jQuery and XML (O'Reilly)

Uche Ogbuji works with jQuery on O'Reilly's XML.com. "jQuery emerged a couple of years ago to great acclaim for its performance, elegant design, and handy features, and now it's one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. jQuery offers a lot of facilities, but it's best known for offering a cross-browser model for accessing and manipulating web page elements that means you don't have to deal with the endless pain of DOM. jQuery can be used for XML processing on the Web as well as HTML processing, and in this article I show some examples of this use."

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Debuggers

GDB 6.7 announced

Version 6.7 of GDB, the Gnu Debugger, has been announced. This version adds a long list of enhancements and bug fixes, see the release announcement for more information. (Thanks to Daniel Qarras).

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Editors

FCKeditor 2.5 Beta released (SourceForge)

Version 2.5 Beta of FCKeditor is out. FCKeditor is an: "Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of known desktop editors like Word. It's XHTML compliant and works with Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and IE. After an incredible development period, full of challenges and enriched by brilliant ideas, here we are with the Beta for the most important release of FCKeditor since version 2.0. It brings not only Safari and Opera support, but also introduces incredibly powerful features."

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IDEs

Texlipse 1.2.0 released (SourceForge)

Version 1.2.0 of Texlipse has been announced. "Texlipse is a plugin that adds Latex editing support for the popular Eclipse Java IDE. Key features include: syntax highlight, command completion, bibliography completion, outline navigation and automatic building. Some new features and a lot of fixed bugs included in this release. Included among others: some bibtex editor fixes, some spell checker fixes and Windows Vista compatibility (finally!). Also, unlike the previous this release requires Java 5."

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Linux in the news

Recommended Reading

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)

Groklaw covers the patent infringement suit filed against Red Hat and Novell by IP Innovation. "You might recall the patent was used in litigation against Apple in April 2007, and Beta News reported at the time that it's a 1991 Xerox PARC patent. But ars technica provided the detail that it references earlier patents going back to 1984." The real focus of the article seems to be an attempt to find a Microsoft link, though; there is not much information on the patent itself.

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In which I get a lesson in patents -- how do you figure out the dates? (Groklaw)

Groklaw has published a conversation with a patent lawyer with more information than most of us want to know about expiration dates, when prior art becomes a valid defense, etc. "All three involved patents should expire December 10, 2008. This means that it's a bit of a puzzle why such a suit has been brought. Normal patentees would be on the whole unlikely to bring expensive patent infringement lawsuits on the basis of patents which are just about to expire. That's mainly because the litigation can be expected to last until well after the expiry date. After patent expiry, the patentee can no longer get any injunction to stop further infringing trade, because that has by then become free to the public."

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Trade Shows and Conferences

Kernel guru woos Linux devs at MontaVista summit (LinuxDevices)

LinuxDevices.com reports from Andrew Morton's talk at the Montavista "Vision" conference. "The legacy of 'patch hoarding' -- maintaining embedded patches outside of the mainline kernel -- should end. People should send their patches to the LKML (Linux kernel mailing list), where etiquette has reportedly improved. Morton also iterated and re-iterated the invitation to send patches privately to him for a candid appraisal."

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The SCO Problem

The Creditors List as text (Groklaw)

Groklaw dissects the SCO creditors list. "When SCO filed for bankruptcy on September 14, there was an attachment to both the SCO Operations, Inc. and the SCO Group's petitions, a Certification Concerning Creditor Matrix, with the list of SCO's creditors. The document included some home addresses, and I felt uncomfortable posting them, so I promised we would do a redacted text version. Here it is, at last. I apologize for the delay. Some of the items on this sad list are obvious; some are mysterious. For example, why would O'Reilly & Associates be on the list? Win4Lin? Maureen O'Gara's G2? The detective that went with her on her stalking mission years ago? RIM? Does the maker of Hipcheck and other mobile solutions use Blackberries? And what's with all the restaurants?"

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Companies

Dell: Microsoft warnings haven't hurt Linux uptake (ZDNet)

Michael Dell says that software patent claims are not hurting his business. "Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando on Thursday, Dell's chief executive officer said his company has seen Linux uptake for servers increase faster than Windows server products, despite Microsoft's claims."

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Novell lays off AppArmor programmers (News.com)

News.com reports that Novell has laid off its AppArmor developers. "Novell will continue updating AppArmor and using and it in its Suse Linux Enterprise Server software, but the development mechanism has changed since Novell released AppArmor as open-source software in 2006. Some companies outsource programming work to India, but with active open-source software projects, there's even lower-cost options."

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Linux Adoption

How Far Behind Is Linux? (Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal joins the crowd saying that desktop Linux isn't happening. "Even though Linux is easier than ever to use, the dream of many Linux buffs of it replacing Windows as the desktop mainstay is, at best, stalled, and at worst, fading. While exact numbers are hard to come by, one survey has desktop Linux users barely scraping a single percentage point of the market share. Among Microsoft's customers, concedes Mr. Torvalds, are his father and sister, though Mom has managed to resist the allure of the dark side."

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Interviews

Shuttleworth on Ballmer (Linux-Watch)

Canonical's CEO Mark Shuttleworth responds to recent comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about intellectual property and patent issues with Linux. "What perhaps upsets Shuttleworth the most is that, at the end of the day, Microsoft doesn't seem to realize that open source and proprietary software developers have much in common when it comes to IP laws. "Microsoft and open source both have the same interest to create a level IP platform. The patent system is not good for anyone. It's not good for Microsoft. It's not good for the little inventor next door. It's not good for FOSS [free and open-source software]. Companies that make money by doing nothing but holding on to patents until someone creates a useful program are the real problem. It's these patent trolls that are dangers to both.""

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Linux Foundation's chief says open source still holds promise for Oregon (Silicon Forest)

Silicon Forest, a blog site hosted by the Oregonian, has an interview with Jim Zemlin, head of the Linux Foundation. "When I talked to Jim on Friday, I suggested that open source hasn't created the economic activity in Oregon that some backers anticipated after Torvalds moved here in 2004. Jim disagreed. Here's how he sees it: I do believe that open source presents an economic opportunity for Oregon. In fact, Oregon has a pretty strong track record of providing economic opportunity for individuals around the support and development of open technology."

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Reviews

New Nokia Linux tablet packs slideout keyboard (LinuxDevices.com)

LinuxDevices profiles the Nokia N810, due to hit the market in November. "The N810 is smaller, heavier, and faster than the older N800, with new features that include a slide-out hardware QWERTY thumb keyboard, GPS receiver, FM transmitter (for in-car listening), and a light-sensing screen dimmer."

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PHASEX: A New Linux Softsynth (Linux Journal)

Dave Phillips takes a look at the PHASEX software music synthesizer on Linux Journal. "Development of native Linux audio plugins and softsynths may not be so relentlessly rapid as it is in the Windows and Mac sound software worlds, but new things do appear. This week I profile a cool new (well, relatively new) Linux softsynth, William Weston's Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment, also known as Phasex."

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Miscellaneous

Firefox Is Going Mobile (PC Magazine)

PC Magazine reports on plans to make a mobile version of the Firefox browser. "The developer team behind Firefox has announced plans to bring a mobile version of the technology to the market in 2008. "People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it," Mike Schroepfer, a Mozilla developer known as "schrep," wrote on the Mozillazine blog. Specifically, Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2, the next-generation browser technology due in 2008".

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Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

OpenOffice.org announces seven year anniversary

The OpenOffice.org reached the 7 year anniversary on October 13, 2007. "Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing since the release of OpenOffice.org 2.3 last month. It is widely considered the most important open source productivity suite and one of the largest open source projects. OpenOffice.org is available in more than 80 languages and runs natively on every major platform; it uses the ISO standard, the OpenDocument Format, for its files."

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OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved two licenses submitted by Microsoft as open source licenses. "The formal evaluation of these licenses began in August and the discussion of these licenses was vigourous and thorough. The community raised questions that Microsoft (and others) answered; they raised issues that, when germane to the licenses in question, Microsoft addressed. Microsoft came to the OSI and submitted their licenses according to the published policies and procedures that dozens of other parties have followed over the years. Microsoft didn't ask for special treatment, and didn't receive any. In spite of recent negative interactions between Microsoft and the open source community, the spirit of the dialog was constructive and we hope that carries forward to a constructive outcome as well." Additional commentary can be found at Microsoft's Port 25 blog and at the 451 CAOS Theory blog.

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Commercial announcements

Alfresco to make JLAN Shared File Drive Interface available via GPL

Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced plans to release Alfresco JLAN under the GNU Public License. "Alfresco JLAN is a unique implementation of an embedded virtual file system that offers the only Java client and server implementation of Microsoft Window's CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol, allowing content, system administration information, and rows in a database to appear as a shared drive."

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Asianux Consortium Announces Mobile Linux Product

The Asianux consortium has announced its mobile Linux product. "The Asianux consortium, where Miracle Linux Corp of Japan, Red Flag Software Co Ltd of China and Haansoft Inc of South Korea are jointly developing Linux products, announced Oct. 15, 2007 that it will start shipping its "Asianux Mobile Midinux Edition" mobile Linux product in January 2008. Expected applications are mobile devices with Internet access capability. Based on the "Midinux 1.0" mobile Linux product that Red Flag announced in June 2007, the new product has been optimized for mobile devices featuring x86 architecture microprocessors. Miracle Linux and Haansoft will market this product in Japan and South Korea, respectively."

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Novell Delivers Desktop-to-Server Software Suite for Small Businesses

Novell, Inc. has announced that the Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition is now available to customers worldwide. "The Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition is based on SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise and includes Novell GroupWise(R) for e-mail, task management and calendaring; Novell Open Enterprise Server for storage, print and management services; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for running applications; SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell for complete desktop productivity; and the Novell edition of the popular office productivity suite OpenOffice.org for Windows* and Linux*. To accommodate growing businesses, the suite features support for up to five servers and 200 users."

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Pentaho announces Open BI Suite 1.6

Pentaho has announced the release of Pentaho Open BI Suite version 1.6. "Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced delivery of Pentaho Open BI Suite 1.6. The new release provides general availability of major new enhancements including an enterprise BI metadata layer that streamlines use of BI data as well as a thin-client reporting interface enabling business users to create their own ad hoc queries and reports."

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SAP contributes memory analyzer tool to Eclipse developer community

SAP AG has announced the contribution of a memory analyzer tool to the Eclipse platform. "As part of its commitment to support the open-source developer community, SAP AG today announced that for the first time it will contribute software development capabilities to the Eclipse community. This new tool will enable developers to build more efficient enterprise applications within Eclipse, the leading open source integrated development environment (IDE). All Java developers will be able to benefit from memory analyzer capabilities within Eclipse that were previously available only for the SAP NetWeaver(R) technology platform."

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TimeSys introduces LinuxLink subscriptions for MIPS 74K

TimeSys Corporation has announced the availability of LinuxLink support subscriptions for the MIPS 74K processor core family. "This high performance processor core is a new addition to the MIPS(R) 32-bit line of processor cores. Through the collaboration between MIPS and TimeSys, customers can build their own custom Linux software platforms using the MIPS32 74K core."

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VariCAD 2007 3.00 released

Version 3.00 of VariCAD 2007, a 3D/2D CAD system for mechanical engineering, is available for Linux. The VariCAD news page says: "The new VariCAD 2007 3.00 includes a completely rebuilt BOM (work with attributes, automatic title blocks filling etc.), improved user interface, new improvements in STEP and DWG file compatibility, a further extended tutorial and quick demonstration, and more. A free 30-day trial version is available for download."

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New Books

Learning Python, 3rd Edition--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book Learning Python, 3rd Edition by Mark Lutz.

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Packt Publishing publishes Mastering OpenLDAP

Packt Publishing has published the book Mastering OpenLDAP: Configuring, Securing and Integrating Directory Services by Matt Butcher.

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Surveys

The Linux Foundation's desktop Linux survey

The Linux Foundation has announced an online survey aimed at determining what the highest-priority needs are for the Linux desktop. "The survey will take only few minutes of your time, and your feedback is essential in helping us to focus our development efforts and accelerate the global adoption of Linux desktops and clients. For example, past surveys highlighted the need to address printing and wireless issues, so we set up focused workgroups and conferences to help developers and vendors work out common solutions to these requirements." The survey is available in several languages.

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Zero Install survey 2007 results

The results from the 2007 Zero Install survey have been announced. "Random summary: People mainly use Zero Install to run ROX applications. Ubuntu is incredibly popular. Not many people found the bug reporting feature. Hardly anyone uses it with Xfce. Software authors' most common reason for using it was to be able to make a single package that runs everywhere."

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Calls for Presentations

Black Hat Tokyo + DC and Europe CfPs now open

Calls for papers have gone out for the Black Hat D.C. and Black Hat Amsterdam security conferences. Black Hat D.C. will take place on February 18-21 in the Washington DC City Center and Black Hat Amsterdam will take place on March 25-28 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Also, Black Hat Japan 2007 starts on October 23, 2007 in Tokyo.

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FOSS.IN/2007 extended CfP closing October 20

The extended call for papers for FOSS.IN/2007 closes on October 20, 2007. "The extended deadline has had some good effects - many more contributor-oriented talks have come in. The Project Days have seen good submissions, and they are really shaping up well. We have sent the list of talks submitted so far to the PD proposers, and should be hearing from them on Monday with initial lists. Debian-Ubuntu, Fedora, Gnome, KDE are all doing fine - great talks, lots of community participation. I'd be happier, though, to see some more talks in the Mozilla PD (to give us a wider choice) and more practical, hands-on talks. How come no talk on Mozilla/Firefox extensions?"

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Upcoming Events

CELF Embedded Linux Conference - Europe

The 2007 CELF Embedded Linux Conference will be held in Linz, Austria on November 2-3, 2007. "This joint conference will consist of over 60 presentations on the subject of embedded and real-time Linux. Presentations on embedded Linux will cover a wide range of topics, including kernel enhancements for realtime, improved memory size, security, and power management. Also, there will be presentations on licensing issues, embedded distributions (covering OpenEmbedded, Embedded Debian, and PokyLinux), embedded graphics systems, flash file systems, and reports of experiences embedding Linux in actual products like TV sets and handheld devices. There will be tutorials on toolchains, packaging tools, and distributions, as well as "Birds of a Feather" sessions on a variety of topics."

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High Level Sponsor Support for Web 2.0 Summit

O'Reilly has announced the top sponsors for the Web 2.0 Summit. "Participants include Platinum sponsor Nokia, and Gold sponsors Adobe, AOL, eBay, Etelos, HP Invent, Level 3 Communications, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and WebEx. The fourth annual Web 2.0 Summit will be held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, October 17-19."

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O'Reilly Where 2.0 2008 charts Location-Aware technologies

O'Reilly has announced the 2008 Where 2.0 Conference. "Now in its fourth year, the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will bring together the people, projects, and issues building new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. The conference, taking place May 12-14, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, CA, will draw over 500 leading-edge developers and innovators from companies who are building location aware technology."

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Events: October 25, 2007 to December 24, 2007

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 21 October 25	OOPSLA 2007	Montreal, Canada
October 21 October 26	Colorado Software Summit	Keystone, CO, USA
October 22 October 26	OpenGL Bootcamp with Rocco Bowling	Atlanta, GA, USA
October 23 October 25	Open aLANtejo 07 - CNSL07	Évora, Portugal
October 23 October 26	Black Hat Japan	Tokyo, Japan
October 25 October 26	FSOSS 2007 - Free Software and Open Source Symposium	Toronto, Canada
October 27 October 28	FOSSCamp 2007	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 27	Linux Day Italy	many cities around country, Italy
October 28 November 2	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
October 29	3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability	Alexandria, VA, USA
October 29 November 1	Fall VON Conference and Expo	Boston, MA, USA
October 30 October 31	BCS'07	Jakarta, Indonesia
October 31 November 1	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	Utrecht, Netherlands
November 1 November 2	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
November 2	5th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode	Alexandria, VA, USA
November 2 November 3	Embedded Linux Conference, Europe	Linz, Austria
November 2 November 4	Real-Time Linux Workshop	Linz, Austria
November 3	Linux-Info-Tag Dresden	Dresden, Germany
November 5 November 9	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, USA
November 7	NLUUG 25th anniversary conference	Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 7	Alfresco North American Community Conference 2007	New York, NY, USA
November 8 November 9	Blog World Expo	Las Vegas, NV, USA
November 10 November 11	Linuxtage	Essen, NRW, Germany
November 11 November 17	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Dallas, TX, USA
November 12 November 16	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, USA
November 12 November 15	OWASP & WASC AppSec 2007 Conference	San Jose, USA
November 12 November 16	ApacheCon US 2007	Atlanta, GA, USA
November 13 November 14	IV Latin American Free Software Conference	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
November 15 November 18	Piksel07	Bergen, Norway
November 15	Alfresco European Community Conference	Paris, France
November 16 November 18	aKademy-es 2007	Zaragoza, Spain
November 20 November 23	DeepSec ISDC 2007	Vienna, Austria
November 22 November 23	Conferencia Rails Hispana	Madrid, Spain
November 24	LinuxDay in Vorarlberg (Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich)	Dornbirn, Austria
November 26 November 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Brisbane, Australia
November 28 November 30	Mono Summit 2007	Madrid, Spain
November 29 November 30	PacSec 2007	Tokyo, Japan
December 1	Django Worldwide Sprint	Online, World
December 1	London Perl Workshop 2007	London, UK
December 4 December 8	FOSS.IN 2007	Bangalore, India
December 7 December 8	Free Software Conference Scandinavia	Gotherburg, Sweden
December 7 December 8	PGCon Brazil	Sao Paulo, Brazil
December 10	Paris on Rails (2nd Edition)	Paris, France
December 11 December 12	3rd DoD Open Conference: Deployment of Open Technologies and Architectures within Military Systems	Vienna, VA, USA
December 15 December 22	Unix Meeting 2007	IRC, Worldwide

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Miscellaneous

Transcript: Richard Stallman, honorary degree speech, Pavia 2007

The Fellowship of FSFE has posted a transcript from Richard Stallman's acceptance speech for an honorary University of Parva, Italy degree. "Innovation can create riches and once in a while, those riches can lead to general economic prosperity, especially if you don't have neo-liberal economics to impede the result. But innovation affects things much more important than riches or even economic prosperity. Democracy was an innovation, fascism was an innovation. Today, in Italy, we see the innovation of placing criminal charges against fishermen for saving people from drowning in the sea. Innovations can directly affect our freedom, which is more important than anything else. Innovation can affect social solidarity, for good or for ill." (Thanks to Alessandro Rubini and Ciaran O'Riordan).

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