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Tuesday's security updates

Tuesday's security updates
[Security] Posted Jan 24, 2012 19:09 UTC (Tue) by ris

CentOS has updated C6: qemu-kvm (code execution).

Debian has updated rails (fixes a regression introduced in the previous update) and openssl (denial of service).

Fedora has updated emacs (F16; F15: privilege escalation), F16: kernel (privilege escalation/restriction bypass), F15: openssl (denial of service), and F15: xkeyboard-config (screensaver lock bypass).

Gentoo has updated freetype (multiple vulnerabilities), jasper (two code execution flaws), fwbuilder (symlink attack/privilege escalation), tor (code execution/information disclosure), mit-krb5 (multiple vulnerabilities), and mit-krb5-appl (privilege escalation/code execution).

Oracle has updated OL6: qemu-kvm (code execution/restriction bypass) and OL5: kvm (denial of service/code execution).

Red Hat has updated qemu-kvm (code execution), kvm (denial of service/code execution), and kernel (privilege escalation).

Scientific Linux has updated SL5: kvm (denial of service/code execution).

SUSE has updated libxml2 (code execution).

Ubuntu has updated linux-lts-backport-natty (denial of service/information leak), linux-lts-backport-oneiric (multiple vulnerabilities), 10.10 (denial of service/information leak), rsyslog (denial of service), qemu-kvm (code execution), and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

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