Linux Today: Linux News On Internet Time.
Search Linux Today
Linux News Sections:  Developer -  High Performance -  Infrastructure -  IT Management -  Security -  Storage -
Linux Today Navigation
LT Home
Contribute
Contribute
Link to Us
Linux Jobs

Partner Sites
JustLinux.com
Linux Planet
PHPBuilder
Technology Jobs


Top White Papers





More on LinuxToday

Security Linux News for Mar 11, 2002

  • LinuxSecurity.com: Significant Vulnerability [zlib] Afflicts Linux Systems (Mar 11, 2002, 21:12)
    "Today in a coordinated effort between all major Linux vendors, a vulnerability in the zlib library was announced, potentially affecting every installed Linux system in existance."

  • Debian Security Advisory: libapache-mod-ssl, apache-ssl (Mar 11, 2002, 19:22)
    "Ed Moyle recently found a buffer overflow in Apache-SSL and mod_ssl. With session caching enabled, mod_ssl will serialize SSL session variables to store them for later use. These variables were stored in a buffer of a fixed size without proper boundary checks."

  • Debian Security Advisory: xtell (Mar 11, 2002, 19:19)
    "Several security related problems have been found in the xtell package, a simple messaging client and server. In detail, these problems contain several buffer overflows, a problem in connection with symbolic links, unauthorized directory traversal when the path contains ".."."