Advisories, May 16, 2006

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 17, 2006

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [ERRATA UPDATE] GLSA 200605-07:02


http://security.gentoo.org/


Severity: High
Title: Nagios: Buffer overflow
Date: May 07, 2006
Updated: May 16, 2006
Bugs: #132159, #133487
ID: 200605-07:02


Errata

The previous upstream release failed to take into account an
integer overflow condition when performing bounds checking. Users
are urged to upgrade to 1.4.1 which resolves the issue.

The corrected sections appear below.

Affected packages


     Package                   /  Vulnerable  /             Unaffected

  1  net-analyzer/nagios-core       < 1.4.1                   >= 1.4.1

Resolution

All Nagios users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/nagios-core-1.4.1"

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-07.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.

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License

Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs
to its owner(s).

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 [UPDATE] GLSA 200605-13:04


http://security.gentoo.org/


Severity: Low
Title: MySQL: Information leakage
Date: May 11, 2006
Updated: May 15, 2006
Bugs: #132146
ID: 200605-13:04


Update

For a short time version 4.0.27 was incorrectly listed as
vulnerable and the resolution incorrectly forced an upgrade to
4.1.x for 4.0.x users.

The updated sections appear below.

Affected packages


     Package       /  Vulnerable  /                         Unaffected

  1  dev-db/mysql      < 4.1.19                              >= 4.1.19
                                                            *>= 4.0.27

Resolution

All MySQL users should upgrade to the latest version.

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/mysql-4.0.27"

Availability

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-13.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.

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License

Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs
to its owner(s).

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

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

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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