SUSE update for Multiple Packages

SA38462

CVE-2008-6123, CVE-2009-3297, CVE-2009-4035, CVE-2010-0295

09 Feb 2010

12 Feb 2010

Highly Critical

Vendor Patch

From remote

DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Exposure of sensitive information

Vulnerabilities where documents or credentials are leaked or can be revealed either locally or from remote.

Exposure of system information

Vulnerabilities where excessive information about the system (e.g. version numbers, running services, installation paths, and similar) are exposed and can be revealed from remote and in some cases locally.

Security Bypass

This covers vulnerabilities or security issues where malicious users or people can bypass certain security mechanisms of the application.

The actual impact varies significantly depending on the design and purpose of the affected application.

SUSE has issued an update for multiple packages. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities and a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, compromise a user's system, bypass certain security restrictions, and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA33884
SA37641
SA38261
SA38403
SA38454

Apply updated packages via YaST Online Update or the SUSE FTP server.
Set the "wide links" option of the "[global]" section to "no" in the smb.conf file.

SUSE-SR:2010:003:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html