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Wednesday's security updates

[Posted January 7, 2009 by corbet]

Fedora has updated am-utils (F9: temporary file vulnerability), avahi (F10: denial of service), p7zip (F8, F9, F10: "archive formats issues"), proftpd (F8, F9, F10: cross-site request forgery), samba (F10: privilege escalation), thunderbird (F8, F9, F10: multiple vulnerabilities), xterm (F8, F9, F10: command execution via escape sequences), and zoneminder (F10: wrong permissions on zm.conf).

Red Hat has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), xen (denial of service and symbolic link vulnerabilities), openssl (certificate verification flaw), gnome-vfs (buffer overflow from 2005), dbus (denial of service), lcms (input validation flaws), xterm (command execution via escape sequences), and hanterm-xf (the xterm flaw again).

Ubuntu has updated thunderbird (6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04LTS, and 8.10: multiple vulnerabilities).

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