Fedora Essential and Critical Security Patch Updates - Page 798

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Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5

Fedora Core 5 Update: kernel-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5

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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

Fedora Core 6 Update: gdm-2.16.4-1.fc6

Fedora Core 6 Update: gdm-2.16.4-1.fc6

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This update brings gdm to the latest stable upstream version, which among other bug fixes and improvements contains a fix for a recently reported security issue that has ID CVE-2006-6105. This fixes a problem where a user can enter strings like "%08x" into the gdmchooser "Add"j host button and print out memory.

Fedora Core 5 Update: firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5

Fedora Core 5 Update: firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc5

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Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processes certain malformed Javascript code. A malicious web page could cause the execution of Javascript code in such a way that could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5463, CVE-2006-5747, CVE-2006-5748) Several flaws were found in the way Firefox renders web pages. A malicious web page could cause the browser to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-5464) Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.8 that corrects these issues.

Fedora Extras [3 4 5 6 devel] / 1.2.1-2 [FE 3 4], 1.3.0-3 [FE 5 6 devel]

Fedora Extras [3 4 5 6 devel] / 1.2.1-2 [FE 3 4], 1.3.0-3 [FE 5 6 devel]

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CVE IDs: CVE-2006-4806, CVE-2006-4807, CVE-2006-4808, CVE-2006-4809 M. Joonas Pihlaja discovered that imlib2 did not sufficiently verify the validity of ARGB, JPG, LBM, PNG, PNM, TGA, and TIFF images. If a user were tricked into viewing or processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses imlib2, the flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Fedora Extras versions earlier then the versions mentioned above are vulnerable to this problem, upgrade to fix this vulnerability.

Fedora Core 5 Update: mono-1.1.13.7-2.fc5.1

Fedora Core 5 Update: mono-1.1.13.7-2.fc5.1

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The Mono runtime implements a JIT engine for the ECMA CLI virtual machine (as well as a byte code interpreter, the class loader, the garbage collector, threading system and metadata access libraries. This advisory covers CVEID: CVE-2006-5072 Mono insecure temporary file usage

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