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Wednesday's security updates

Wednesday's security updates
[Security] Posted May 7, 2008 17:46 UTC (Wed) by corbet

CentOS has updated the kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

Debian has updated kazehakase (multiple vulnerabilities from old version of PCRE library).

Mandriva has updated emacs (temporary file vulnerability), kdelibs (local code execution if somebody installs the wrong thing setuid root), and openssh (command restriction bypass).

Red Hat has updated the kernel (RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2005).

rPath has updated the kernel (race condition in filesystem lock code).

Ubuntu has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), OpenOffice.org (multiple vulnerabilities), and ltsp (open X server).

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