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SUSE 2008:021 Moderate: Security Fixes For Multiple Packages

To avoid flooding mailing lists with SUSE Security Announcements for minor To avoid flooding mailing lists with SUSE Security Announcements for minor issues, SUSE Security releases weekly summary reports for the low profile issues, SUSE Security releases weekly summary reports for the low profile vulnerability fixes. The SUSE Security Summary Reports do not list or download URLs like the SUSE Secu [More...]. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUSE Security Summary Report Announcement ID: SUSE-SR:2008:021 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000 Cross-References: CVE-2008-2940, CVE-2008-2941, CVE-2008-2952 CVE-2008-3658, CVE-2008-3659 Content of this advisory: 1) Solved Security Vulnerabilities: - cups - hplip - apache2-mod_php5 - openldap2 2) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds: none 3) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) Solved Security Vulnerabilities To avoid flooding mailing lists with SUSE Security Announcements for minor issues, SUSE Security releases weekly summary reports for the low profile vulnerability fixes. The SUSE Security Summary Reports do not list or download URLs like the SUSE Security Announcements that are released for more severe vulnerabilities. Fixed packages for the following incidents are already available on our FTP server and via the YaST Online Update. - cups Specially crafted print jobs could trigger buffer overflows in the 'imagetops', 'texttops' and 'hpgltops' filters. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code on the cups server (CVE-2008-3639, CVE-2008-3640, CVE-2008-3641). Affected products: openSUSE10.2-11.0, SLED 10 SP1,SLED 10 SP2, SLES 10 SP1,SLES 10 SP2,SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries,SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86, Novell Linux Desktop 9,Novell Linux POS 9,Open Enterprise Server,SLES 9 - hplip,hplip-hpijs,hplip17,hplip17-hpijs hplip was updated because it does allow to send alert mails as user (CVE-2008-2940) and was affected by a denial-of-service bug (CVE-2008-2941). Affected products: openSUSE 10.2-10.3,SLED 10 SP1,SLED 10 SP2,SLES 10 SP1, SLES 10 SP2 - apache2-mod_php5,php5* The current update of apache2-mod_php5 fixes some overflows in the gd extension and in the memnstr() function that could crash php or possibly allow remote code execution (CVE-2008-3658, CVE-2008-3659) Affected products: openSUSE 10.2-11.0 (previously released), SLE SDK 10 SP1,SLES 10 SP1 - openldap2 This update fixes a security problem in the liblber client library of openldap that allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program termination) via crafted ASN.1 BER datagrams, which triggers an assertion error. (CVE-2008-2952) Additionally a bug was fixed in ldap_free_connection which could result in client crashes when the server closed a connection while an operation is active. Affected products: openSUSE 10.2-11.0, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell Linux POS 9,Open Enterprise Server,SLE 10 DEBUGINFO SP2,SLE SDK 10 SP1, SLE SDK 10 SP2,SLED 10 SP1,SLED 10 SP2,SLES 10 SP1,SLES 10 SP2,SLES 9, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds none ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information - Announcement authenticity verification: SUSE security announcementsare published via mailing lists and on Web sites. The authenticity and integrity of a SUSE security announcement is guaranteed by a cryptographic signature in each announcement. All SUSE security announcements are published with a valid signature. To verify the signature of the announcement, save it as text into a file and run the command gpg --verify replacing with the name of the file containing the announcement. The output for a valid signature looks like: gpg: Signature made using RSA key ID 3D25D3D9 gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Security Team " where is replaced by the date the document was signed. If the security team's key is not contained in your key ring, you can import it from the first installation CD. To import the key, use the command gpg --import gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc - Package authenticity verification: SUSE update packages are available on many mirror FTP servers all over the world. While this service is considered valuable and important to the free and open source software community, the authenticity and integrity of a package needs to be verified to ensure that it has not been tampered with. The internal RPM package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity of an RPM package. Use the command rpm -v --checksig to verify the signature of the package, replacing with the filename of the RPM package downloaded. The package is unmodified if it contains a valid signature from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the key ID 9C800ACA. This key is automatically imported into the RPM database (on RPMv4-based distributions) and the gpg key ring of 'root' during installation. You can also find it on the first installation CD and included at the end of this announcement. - SUSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may subscribe: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - General Linux and SUSE securitydiscussion. All SUSE security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to . This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - SUSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to . ==================================================================== SUSE's security contact is or . The public key is listed below. ==================================================================== . SUSE Security Overview Bulletin for minor vulnerabilities with addressed concerns and impacted software on October 17, 2008.. SUSE Security, Vulnerability Issues, Package Updates, Open Source Solutions. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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