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SUSE: Lessons from 2009:004 Low Profile Challenges Addressed Efficiently

To avoid flooding mailing lists with SUSE Security Announcements To avoid flooding mailing lists with SUSE Security Announcements for minor 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.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUSE Security Summary Report Announcement ID: SUSE-SR:2009:004 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:00:00 +0000 Cross-References: CVE-2006-3835, CVE-2007-0184, CVE-2007-0185 CVE-2007-2377, CVE-2007-2449, CVE-2007-2450 CVE-2007-3382, CVE-2007-3385, CVE-2007-3386 CVE-2007-5333, CVE-2007-5342, CVE-2007-5461 CVE-2007-5613, CVE-2007-5615, CVE-2007-6286 CVE-2008-0002, CVE-2008-1232, CVE-2008-1586 CVE-2008-1947, CVE-2008-2235, CVE-2008-2370 CVE-2008-2938, CVE-2008-3231, CVE-2008-3651 CVE-2008-3652, CVE-2008-3663, CVE-2008-3796 CVE-2008-4577, CVE-2008-5086, CVE-2008-5233 CVE-2008-5234, CVE-2008-5235, CVE-2008-5236 CVE-2008-5237, CVE-2008-5238, CVE-2008-5239 CVE-2008-5240, CVE-2008-5241, CVE-2008-5242 CVE-2008-5243, CVE-2008-5244, CVE-2008-5245 CVE-2008-5246, CVE-2008-5247, CVE-2008-5248 CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252, CVE-2008-5256 CVE-2008-5302, CVE-2008-5557, CVE-2008-5587 CVE-2008-5658, CVE-2008-5718,CVE-2009-0030 CVE-2009-0310, CVE-2009-0313, CVE-2009-0416 CVE-2009-0490 Content of this advisory: 1) Solved Security Vulnerabilities: - apache-jakarta-tomcat-connectors - apache2-mod_php5 - audacity - dovecot - libtiff-devel - libvirt - mediawiki - netatalk - novell-ipsec-tools - opensc - perl - phpPgAdmin - sbl - sblim-sfcb - squirrelmail - swfdec - tomcat5 - virtualbox - websphere-as_ce - wine - xine-devel 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. - apache-jakarta-tomcat-connectors Two old but not yet fixed security issues in tomcat5 were spotted and are fixed by this update: CVE-2006-3835: Apache Tomcat 5 before 5.5.17 allows remote attackers to list directories via a semicolon (;) preceding a filename with a mapped extension, as demonstrated by URLs ending with /;index.jsp and /;help.do. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in certain applications using Apache Tomcat allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted "Accept-Languageheaders that do not conform to RFC 2616". These issues were rated "low" by the Apache Tomcat team. Affected products: SLES9 - apache2-mod_php5 This update of php5 fixes a directory traversal bug in ZipArchive (CVE-2008-5658) and a buffer overflow in the mstring extension (CVE-2008-5557). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1, SLE10-SP2 - audacity Specially crafted GRO files could cause a stack based buffer in audacity (CVE-2009-0490). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - dovecot Dovecot didn't properly treat negative access rights therefore allowing attackers to bypass intended access restrictions (CVE-2008-4577) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0 - libtiff-devel specially crafted tiff images could lead to allocating large amounts of memory therefore crashing applications that process such files (CVE-2008-1586). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - libvirt libvirt misses some read-only connection checks for certain methods. This flaw enables local unprivileged users for example to migrate virtual machines without authentication (CVE-2008-5086). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1, SLE10-SP2 - mediawiki Missing checks allowed remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks against MediaWiki (CVE-2008-5250, CVE-2008-5252). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0 - netatalk This update of netatalk adds a filter for characters of user-supplied data to papd. Prior to this update it was possible to execute arbitrary shell commands remotely. (CVE-2008-5718) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1, SLE10-SP2 - novell-ipsec-tools Remote attackers could exploit memory leaks in the 'racoon' daemon to crash it (CVE-2008-3651, CVE-2008-3652) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0 - opensc This update fixes a security issues with opensc that occured when initializing blank smart cards with Siemens CardOS M4. After the initialization anyone could set the PIN of the smart card without authorization (CVE-2008-2235). NOTE: Already initialized cards are still vulnerable after this update. Please use the command-line tool pkcs15-tool with option --test-update and --update when necessary. Don't forget to reinitialize your smart cards if you are using cards with Siemens CardOS M4 operating system that were initialized using opensc! Please find more information at This is the second attempt to fix this problem. The previous update was unforunately incomplete. Affected products: openSUSE SLE10-SP2 - perl This perl update fixes a race condition in rmtree. (CVE-2008-5302) Affected products: openSUSE 11.0-11.1 - phpPgAdmin Attackers could read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in phpPgAdmin (CVE-2008-5587). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - sbl A buffer overflow in the sbl package has been fixed. Incoming data and authentication-strings have not been checked properly. CVE-2009-0310 has been assigned to this issue. Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0 - sblim-sfcb A tmp file race condition in the genSslCerts.sh helper script could be used by local attackers to gain root privileges. (CVE-2009-0416) Affected products: openSUSE 11.0-11.1 - squirrelmail This update of squirrelmail corrects a problem introduced by a patch for CVE-2008-3663 that caused cookies to be static. (CVE-2009-0030) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3 - swfdec The free Flash decoder engine "swfdec" was updated to version 0.6.8 to fix lots of crashers which are likely security relevant and could be exploited to remotely execute code. (CVE-2008-3796) Affected products: openSUSE 11.0 - tomcat5 Two old but not yet fixed security issues in tomcat5 were spotted and are fixed bythis update: CVE-2006-3835: Apache Tomcat 5 before 5.5.17 allows remote attackers to list directories via a semicolon (;) preceding a filename with a mapped extension, as demonstrated by URLs ending with /;index.jsp and /;help.do. Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in certain applications using Apache Tomcat allowed remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted "Accept-Language headers that do not conform to RFC 2616". These issues were rated "low" by the Apache Tomcat team. Affected products: SLE10-SP2 - virtualbox Insufficient checks on temporary files could allow users to trick others into overwriting arbitrary files (CVE-2008-5256). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0 - websphere-as_ce Websphere has been updated to version 2.1.0.1 to fix several security vulnerability in the included subprojects, such as Apache Geronimo and Tomcat (CVE-2007-0184, CVE-2007-0185, CVE-2007-2377, CVE-2007-2449, CVE-2007-2450, CVE-2007-3382, CVE-2007-3385, CVE-2007-3386, CVE-2007-5333, CVE-2007-5342, CVE-2007-5461, CVE-2007-5613, CVE-2007-5615, CVE-2007-6286, CVE-2008-0002, CVE-2008-1232, CVE-2008-1947, CVE-2008-2370, CVE-2008-2938). Affected products: SLE10-SP2 - wine A symlink vulnerability in handling tmp files in the winetricks helper scripts was fixed. (CVE-2009-0313) Affected products: openSUSE 11.0-11.1 - xine-devel This update of xine fixes multiple buffer overflows while parsing files: - CVE-2008-3231 - CVE-2008-5233 - CVE-2008-5234 - CVE-2008-5235 - CVE-2008-5236 - CVE-2008-5237 - CVE-2008-5238 - CVE-2008-5239 - CVE-2008-5240 - CVE-2008-5241 - CVE-2008-5242 - CVE-2008-5243 - CVE-2008-5244 - CVE-2008-5245 - CVE-2008-5246 - CVE-2008-5247 - CVE-2008-5248 These bugs can lead to remote code execution. Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0, SLES9,SLE10-SP2 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds none ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information - Announcement authenticity verification: SUSE security announcements are 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 importedinto 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 security discussion. 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. ==================================================================== . Uncover the SUSE Security Overview Document outlining minimal exposure patches and threats addressed on March 15, 2010.. SUSE Security, Summary Report, Vulnerability Fixes. . Severity: Low. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Feb 17, 2009 •Low SuSE