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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-01

http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal
Title: DenyHosts: Denial of Service
Date: January 03, 2007
Bugs: #157163
ID: 200701-01

Synopsis

DenyHosts does not correctly parse log entries, potentially causing a remote Denial of Service.

Background

DenyHosts is designed to monitor SSH servers for repeated failed login attempts.

Affected packages


     Package              /  Vulnerable  /                  Unaffected

  1  app-admin/denyhosts        < 2.6                           >= 2.6

Description

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that DenyHosts used an incomplete regular expression to parse failed login attempts.

A remote unauthenticated attacker can add arbitrary hosts to the blacklist by attempting to login with a specially crafted username. An attacker may use this to prevent legitimate users from accessing a host remotely.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All DenyHosts users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-admin/denyhosts-2.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-6301

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6301

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-01.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-02

http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal
Title: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 04, 2007
Bugs: #156023
ID: 200701-02

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, some of which may allow the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project.

Affected packages

Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

1 www-client/mozilla-firefox < 1.5.0.9 >= 1.5.0.9 2 www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin < 1.5.0.9 >= 1.5.0.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.

Description

An anonymous researcher found evidence of memory corruption in the way Mozilla Firefox handles certain types of SVG comment DOM nodes. Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the conversion of a CSS cursor. Other issues with memory corruption were also fixed. Mozilla Firefox also contains less severe vulnerabilities involving JavaScript and Java.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page that will trigger one of the vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. It is also possible for an attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, leading to the exposure of sensitive information, like user credentials.

Workaround

There are no known workarounds for all the issues at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.9"

All Mozilla Firefox binary release users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-6497

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6497

[ 2 ] CVE-2006-6498

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6498

[ 3 ] CVE-2006-6499

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6499

[ 4 ] CVE-2006-6500

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6500

[ 5 ] CVE-2006-6501

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6501

[ 6 ] CVE-2006-6502

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6502

[ 7 ] CVE-2006-6503

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6503

[ 8 ] CVE-2006-6504

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6504

[ 9 ] CVE-2006-6506

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6506

[ 10 ] CVE-2006-6507

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6507

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-02.xml

Concerns?

License

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-03

http://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: High
Title: Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 04, 2007
Bugs: #158571
ID: 200701-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Thunderbird, some of which may allow the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Mozilla Thunderbird is a popular open-source email client from the Mozilla Project.

Affected packages

Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

1 mozilla-thunderbird < 1.5.0.9 >= 1.5.0.9 2 mozilla-thunderbird-bin < 1.5.0.9 >= 1.5.0.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.

Description

Georgi Guninski and David Bienvenu discovered buffer overflows in the processing of long "Content-Type:" and long non-ASCII MIME headers. Additionally, Frederik Reiss discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the conversion of a CSS cursor. Different vulnerabilities involving memory corruption in the browser engine were also fixed. Mozilla Thunderbird also contains less severe vulnerabilities involving JavaScript and Java.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted email that will trigger one of these vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code. An attacker could also perform cross-site scripting attacks, leading to the exposure of sensitive information, like user credentials. Note that the execution of JavaScript or Java applets is disabled by default and enabling it is strongly discouraged.

Workaround

There are no known workarounds for all the issues at this time.

Resolution

All Mozilla Thunderbird users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5.0.9"

All Mozilla Thunderbird binary release users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.5.0.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-6497

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6497

[ 2 ] CVE-2006-6500

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6500

[ 3 ] CVE-2006-6501

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6501

[ 4 ] CVE-2006-6502

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6502

[ 5 ] CVE-2006-6503

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6503

[ 6 ] CVE-2006-6505

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6505

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-03.xml

Concerns?

License

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

SUSE Linux

SUSE Security Announcement

Package: OpenOffice_org
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2007:001
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: Novell Linux Desktop 9 SLE SDK 10 SUSE LINUX 10.1 SUSE LINUX 10.0 SUSE LINUX 9.3 SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 SUSE SLED 10
Vulnerability Type: code execution
Severity (1-10): 7
SUSE Default Package: yes
Cross-References: CVE-2006-5870

Content of This Advisory:

Security Vulnerability Resolved: buffer overflows in WMF and Enhanced WMF handling Problem Description
Solution or Work-Around
Special Instructions and Notes
Package Location and Checksums
Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds: See SUSE Security Summary Report.
Authenticity Verification and Additional Information

1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion

Security problems were fixed in the WMF and Enhanced WMF handling in OpenOffice_org These could potentially be used to execute code or crash OpenOffice when a user could be convinced to open specially crafted document (for instance a document sent by E-mail).

This issue is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-5870.

openSUSE 10.2 is not affected by this problem, it already contains the fixed OpenOffice_org 2.1 version.

Additionally the OpenOffice_org 2.0 version in SLED 10 was fitted with hooks to add OfficeXML support with a later update.

Due to the very large size of this update and mirror lag it might take some hours or days until the updates are available on our mirrors.

2) Solution or Work-Around

There is no known workaround, please install the update packages.

3) Special Instructions and Notes

Restart OpenOffice after the update.

4) Package Location and Checksums

The preferred method for installing security updates is to use the YaST Online Update (YOU) tool. YOU detects which updates are required and automatically performs the necessary steps to verify and install them. Alternatively, download the update packages for your distribution manually and verify their integrity by the methods listed in Section 6 of this announcement. Then install the packages using the command

rpm -Fhv <file.rpm>

to apply the update, replacing <file.rpm> with the filename of the downloaded RPM package.

x86 Platform:

SUSE LINUX 10.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/OpenOffice_org-2.0.2-27.15.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/OpenOffice_org-gnome-2.0.2-27.15.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.2-27.15.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/OpenOffice_org-mono-2.0.2-27.15.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/i586/OpenOffice_org-officebean-2.0.2-27.15.i586.rpm

Power PC Platform:

SUSE LINUX 10.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/OpenOffice_org-2.0.2-27.15.ppc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/OpenOffice_org-gnome-2.0.2-27.15.ppc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.2-27.15.ppc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/OpenOffice_org-mono-2.0.2-27.15.ppc.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/ppc/OpenOffice_org-officebean-2.0.2-27.15.ppc.rpm

Sources:

SUSE LINUX 10.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/src/OpenOffice_org-2.0.2-27.15.src.rpm

SUSE LINUX 10.0:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/10.0/rpm/src/OpenOffice_org-2.0.0-1.6.src.rpm

SUSE LINUX 9.3:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/src/OpenOffice_org1-1.1.3-4.7.src.rpm

Our maintenance customers are notified individually. The packages are offered for installation from the maintenance web:

SLE SDK 10
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/5de7a5faac735ff75aae048d9aeaa21f.html

SUSE SLED 10
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/5de7a5faac735ff75aae048d9aeaa21f.html

Novell Linux Desktop 9
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/b38ccbe0fb2200869a3553e136fde4f2.html

SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/b38ccbe0fb2200869a3553e136fde4f2.html

5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:

See SUSE Security Summary Report.

6) 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 <file>
replacing <file> with the name of the file containing the announcement. The output for a valid signature looks like:
gpg: Signature made <DATE> using RSA key ID 3D25D3D9 gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de>" fd03f46c3cb8bef62d6bc717183204e7
36bd92eac9d3fd998998625d5f812858
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where <DATE> 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 <file.rpm>
to verify the signature of the package, replacing <file.rpm> with the filename of the RPM package downloaded. The package is unmodified if it contains a valid signature from build@suse.de 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:
- opensuse-security@opensuse.org
  General Linux and SUSE security discussion.
  All SUSE security announcements are sent to this list.
  To subscribe, send an e-mail to
  <opensuse-security+subscribe@opensuse.org>.
- suse-security-announce@suse.com
  SUSE's announce-only mailing list.
  Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
  To subscribe, send an e-mail to
  <suse-security-announce-subscribe@suse.com>.

SUSE's security contact is <security@suse.com> or <security@suse.de>.
The <security@suse.de> public key is listed below.

The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced, provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular, the clear text signature should show proof of the authenticity of the text.

SUSE Linux Products GmbH provides no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory.

Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 2048R/3D25D3D9 1999-03-06 SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de>
pub 1024D/9C800ACA 2000-10-19 SuSE Package Signing Key <build@suse.de>

SUSE Security Announcement

Package: mono-web
Announcement ID: SUSE-SA:2007:002
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:00:00 +0000
Affected Products: openSUSE 10.2 SLE SDK 10 SUSE LINUX 10.1 SUSE SLED 10 SUSE SLES 10
Vulnerability Type: remote source code disclosure
Severity (1-10): 4
SUSE Default Package: no
Cross-References: CVE-2006-6104

Content of This Advisory:

Security Vulnerability Resolved: ASP.net source code disclosure Problem Description
Solution or Work-Around
Special Instructions and Notes
Package Location and Checksums
Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds: See SUSE Security Summary Report.
Authenticity Verification and Additional Information

1) Problem Description and Brief Discussion

A security problem was found and fixed in the Mono / C# web server implementation.

By appending spaces to URLs attackers could download the source code of ASP.net scripts that would normally get executed by the web server.

This issue is tracked by the Mitre CVE ID CVE-2006-6104 and only affects SUSE Linux 10.1, openSUSE 10.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10.

Older products are not affected.

The updated packages for this problem were released on December 29th 2006.

2) Solution or Work-Around

There is no known workaround, please install the update packages.

3) Special Instructions and Notes

None.

4) Package Location and Checksums

rpm -Fhv <file.rpm>

to apply the update, replacing <file.rpm> with the filename of the downloaded RPM package.

x86 Platform:

Platform Independent:

openSUSE 10.2:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/noarch/mono-basic-1.1.18-9.1.noarch.rpm 563582c657915b15b4081b6f36ee37cf

Power PC Platform:

x86-64 Platform:

Sources:

openSUSE 10.2:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/mono-basic-1.1.18-9.1.src.rpm 4d7e3741dccd7caa42bdc630dfe258fa
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/src/mono-core-1.1.18.1-12.2.src.rpm 4165d9c7bfe3e9fe270a881a152d280a

SUSE LINUX 10.1:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.1/rpm/src/mono-core-1.1.13.8-2.15.src.rpm 24e736054c58c12f64133037a8cf2f10

Our maintenance customers are notified individually. The packages are offered for installation from the maintenance web:

SUSE SLES 10
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/42c27df99955c5253c97cbbfb7b56d6f.html

SLE SDK 10
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/42c27df99955c5253c97cbbfb7b56d6f.html

SUSE SLED 10
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/42c27df99955c5253c97cbbfb7b56d6f.html

5) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds:

See SUSE Security Summary Report.

6) 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 <file>
replacing <file> with the name of the file containing the announcement. The output for a valid signature looks like:
gpg: Signature made <DATE> using RSA key ID 3D25D3D9 gpg: Good signature from "SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de>"

where <DATE> 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 <file.rpm>
to verify the signature of the package, replacing <file.rpm> with the filename of the RPM package downloaded. The package is unmodified if it contains a valid signature from build@suse.de 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:
- opensuse-security@opensuse.org
  General Linux and SUSE security discussion.
  All SUSE security announcements are sent to this list.
  To subscribe, send an e-mail to
  <opensuse-security+subscribe@opensuse.org>.
- suse-security-announce@suse.com
  SUSE's announce-only mailing list.
  Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
  To subscribe, send an e-mail to
  <suse-security-announce-subscribe@suse.com>.

SUSE's security contact is <security@suse.com> or <security@suse.de>.
The <security@suse.de> public key is listed below.

SUSE Linux Products GmbH provides no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this security advisory.

Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 2048R/3D25D3D9 1999-03-06 SuSE Security Team <security@suse.de>
pub 1024D/9C800ACA 2000-10-19 SuSE Package Signing Key <build@suse.de>

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