An issue was found in open-vm-tools, a set of tools for VMs hosted on VMware. The issue is related to a local privilege escalation in combination with the get-versions.sh script, shipped with the service . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4316-1
Several issues have been discovered in libcgroup, a library to control and monitor control groups: CVE-2011-1006 . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2193-1
iDEFENSE has reported a buffer overflow in xpdf, the portable document format (PDF) suite. Similar code is present in the PDF processing part of CUPS. A maliciously crafted PDF file could exploit this problem, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 645-1
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