Updated firefox packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

Two flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain regular expressions. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-4565, CVE-2006-4566)

A number of flaws were found in Firefox. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-4571)

A flaw was found in the handling of JavaScript timed events. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-4253)

Daniel Bleichenbacher recently described an implementation error in RSA signature verification. For RSA keys with exponent 3 it is possible for an attacker to forge a signature that would be incorrectly verified by the NSS library. Firefox as shipped trusts several root Certificate Authorities that use exponent 3. An attacker could have created a carefully crafted SSL certificate which be incorrectly trusted when their site was visited by a victim.
(CVE-2006-4340)

A flaw was found in the Firefox auto-update verification system. An attacker who has the ability to spoof a victim's DNS could get Firefox to download and install malicious code. In order to exploit this issue an attacker would also need to get a victim to previously accept an unverifiable certificate. (CVE-2006-4567)

Firefox did not properly prevent a frame in one domain from injecting content into a sub-frame that belongs to another domain, which facilitates website spoofing and other attacks (CVE-2006-4568)

Firefox did not load manually opened, blocked popups in the right domain context, which could lead to cross-site scripting attacks. In order to exploit this issue an attacker would need to find a site which would frame their malicious page and convince the user to manually open a blocked popup. (CVE-2006-4569)

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.7 that corrects these issues.

Updated PHP packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Web server.

A response-splitting issue was discovered in the PHP session handling.
If a remote attacker can force a carefully crafted session identifier to be used, a cross-site-scripting or response-splitting attack could be possible. (CVE-2006-3016)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the PHP sscanf() function. If a script used the sscanf() function with positional arguments in the format string, a remote attacker sending a carefully crafted request could execute arbitrary code as the 'apache' user. (CVE-2006-4020)

An integer overflow was discovered in the PHP wordwrap() and str_repeat() functions. If a script running on a 64-bit server used either of these functions on untrusted user data, a remote attacker sending a carefully crafted request might be able to cause a heap overflow. (CVE-2006-4482)

A buffer overflow was discovered in the PHP gd extension. If a script was set up to process GIF images from untrusted sources using the gd extension, a remote attacker could cause a heap overflow.
(CVE-2006-4484)

An integer overflow was discovered in the PHP memory allocation handling. On 64-bit platforms, the 'memory_limit' setting was not enforced correctly, which could allow a denial of service attack by a remote user. (CVE-2006-4486)

Users of PHP should upgrade to these updated packages which contain backported patches to correct these issues. These packages also contain a fix for a bug where certain input strings to the metaphone() function could cause memory corruption.

Updated gzip packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The gzip package contains the GNU gzip data compression program.

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered two denial of service flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to hang or crash. (CVE-2006-4334, CVE-2006-4338)

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several code execution flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2006-4335, CVE-2006-4336, CVE-2006-4337)

Users of gzip should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to these issues.

Updated XFree86 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System, which provides the core functionality for the Linux graphical desktop.

iDefense reported two integer overflow flaws in the way the XFree86 server processed CID font files. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the XFree86 server.
(CVE-2006-3739, CVE-2006-3740)

Users of XFree86 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Updated X.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.

iDefense reported two integer overflow flaws in the way the X.org server processed CID font files. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.org server.
(CVE-2006-3739, CVE-2006-3740)

Users of X.org should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Updated ncompress packages that address a security issue and fix bugs are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The ncompress package contains file compression and decompression utilities, which are compatible with the original UNIX compress utility (.Z file extensions).

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a lack of bounds checking in ncompress. An attacker could create a carefully crafted file that could execute arbitrary code if uncompressed by a victim.
(CVE-2006-1168)

In addition, two bugs that affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ncompress packages were fixed :

* The display statistics and compression results in verbose mode were not shown when operating on zero length files.

* An attempt to compress zero length files resulted in an unexpected return code.

Users of ncompress are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

New Wireshark packages that fix various security vulnerabilities are now available. Wireshark was previously known as Ethereal.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Wireshark is a program for monitoring network traffic.

Bugs were found in Wireshark's SCSI and SSCOP protocol dissectors.
Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-4330, CVE-2006-4333)

An off-by-one bug was found in the IPsec ESP decryption preference parser. Ethereal could crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-4331)

Users of Wireshark or Ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages containing Wireshark version 0.99.3, which is not vulnerable to these issues. These packages also fix a bug in the PAM configuration of the Wireshark packages which prevented non-root users starting a capture.

Updated OpenSSL packages are now available to correct a security issue.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

Daniel Bleichenbacher recently described an attack on PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures. Where an RSA key with exponent 3 is used it may be possible for an attacker to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature that would be incorrectly verified by implementations that do not check for excess data in the RSA exponentiation result of the signature.

The Google Security Team discovered that OpenSSL is vulnerable to this attack. This issue affects applications that use OpenSSL to verify X.509 certificates as well as other uses of PKCS #1 v1.5.
(CVE-2006-4339)

This errata also resolves a problem where a customized ca-bundle.crt file was overwritten when the openssl package was upgraded.

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Note: After installing this update, users are advised to either restart all services that use OpenSSL or restart their system.

Updated mailman packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists.

A flaw was found in the way Mailman handled MIME multipart messages.
An attacker could send a carefully crafted MIME multipart email message to a mailing list run by Mailman which caused that particular mailing list to stop working. (CVE-2006-2941)

Several cross-site scripting (XSS) issues were found in Mailman. An attacker could exploit these issues to perform cross-site scripting attacks against the Mailman administrator. (CVE-2006-3636)

Red Hat would like to thank Barry Warsaw for disclosing these vulnerabilities.

Users of Mailman should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue.

Updated kdegraphics packages that fix several security flaws in kfax are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, and 3.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The kdegraphics package contains graphics applications for the K Desktop Environment.

Tavis Ormandy of Google discovered a number of flaws in libtiff during a security audit. The kfax application contains a copy of the libtiff code used for parsing TIFF files and is therefore affected by these flaws. An attacker who has the ability to trick a user into opening a malicious TIFF file could cause kfax to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2006-3459, CVE-2006-3460, CVE-2006-3461, CVE-2006-3462, CVE-2006-3463, CVE-2006-3464, CVE-2006-3465)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is not vulnerable to these issues as kfax uses the shared libtiff library which has been fixed in a previous update.

Users of kfax should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to this issue.

Updated X.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon.

An integer overflow flaw in the way the X.org server processes PCF files was discovered. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.org server.
(CVE-2006-3467)

Users of X.org should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Updated ImageMagick packages that fix several security issues are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

ImageMagick(TM) is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System that can read and write multiple image formats.

Tavis Ormandy discovered several integer and buffer overflow flaws in the way ImageMagick decodes XCF, SGI, and Sun bitmap graphic files. An attacker could execute arbitrary code on a victim's machine if they were able to trick the victim into opening a specially crafted image file. (CVE-2006-3743, CVE-2006-3744, CVE-2006-4144)

Users of ImageMagick should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available.

This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the security issues described below :

* a flaw in the proc file system that allowed a local user to use a suid-wrapper for scripts to gain root privileges (CVE-2006-3626, Important)

* a flaw in the SCTP implementation that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) or to possibly gain root privileges (CVE-2006-3745, Important)

* a flaw in NFS exported ext2/ext3 partitions when handling invalid inodes that allowed a remote authenticated user to cause a denial of service (filesystem panic) (CVE-2006-3468, Important)

* a flaw in the restore_all code path of the 4/4GB split support of non-hugemem kernels that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-2932, Important)

* a flaw in IPv4 netfilter handling for the unlikely use of SNMP NAT processing that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) or potential memory corruption (CVE-2006-2444, Moderate)

* a flaw in the DVD handling of the CDROM driver that could be used together with a custom built USB device to gain root privileges (CVE-2006-2935, Moderate)

* a flaw in the handling of O_DIRECT writes that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) (CVE-2004-2660, Low)

* a flaw in the SCTP chunk length handling that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-1858, Low)

* a flaw in the input handling of the ftdi_sio driver that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) (CVE-2006-2936, Low)

In addition a bugfix was added to enable a clean reboot for the IBM Pizzaro machines.

Red Hat would like to thank Wei Wang of McAfee Avert Labs and Kirill Korotaev for reporting issues fixed in this erratum.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Updated Perl packages that fix security a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities and Web programming.

Kevin Finisterre discovered a flaw in sperl, the Perl setuid wrapper, which can cause debugging information to be logged to arbitrary files.
By setting an environment variable, a local user could cause sperl to create, as root, files with arbitrary filenames, or append the debugging information to existing files. (CVE-2005-0155)

A fix for this issue was first included in the update RHSA-2005:103 released in February 2005. However the patch to correct this issue was dropped from the update RHSA-2005:674 made in October 2005. This regression has been assigned CVE-2006-3813.

Users of Perl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated kdebase packages that resolve several bugs are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The kdebase packages provide the core applications for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. These core packages include the file manager Konqueror.

Ilja van Sprundel discovered a lock file handling flaw in kcheckpass.
If the directory /var/lock is writable by a user who is allowed to run kcheckpass, that user could gain root privileges. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the /var/lock directory is not writable by users and therefore this flaw could only have been exploited if the permissions on that directory have been badly configured. A patch to block this issue has been included in this update. (CVE-2005-2494)

The following bugs have also been addressed :

  - kstart --tosystray does not send the window to the     system tray in Kicker

  - When the customer enters or selects URLs in Firefox's     address field, the desktop freezes for a couple of     seconds

  - fish kioslave is broken on 64-bit systems

All users of kdebase should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain patches to resolve these issues.

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the fourth regular update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

New features introduced in this update include :

* Device Mapper mirroring support

* IDE diskdump support

* x86, AMD64 and Intel EM64T: Multi-core scheduler support enhancements

* Itanium: perfmon support for Montecito

* much improved support for IBM x460

* AMD PowerNow! patches to support Opteron Rev G

* Vmalloc support > 64MB

The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions :

ipmi: 33.11 to 33.13 ib_mthca: 0.06 to 0.08 bnx2: 1.4.30 to 1.4.38 bonding: 2.6.1 to 2.6.3 e100: 3.4.8-k2-NAPI to 3.5.10-k2-NAPI e1000:
6.1.16-k3-NAPI to 7.0.33-k2-NAPI sky2: 0.13 to 1.1 tg3: 3.43-rh to 3.52-rh ipw2100: 1.1.0 to git-1.1.4 ipw2200: 1.0.0 to git-1.0.10 3w-9xxx: 2.26.02.001 to 2.26.04.010 ips: 7.10.18 to 7.12.02 iscsi_sfnet: 4:0.1.11-2 to 4:0.1.11-3 lpfc: 0:8.0.16.18 to 0:8.0.16.27 megaraid_sas: 00.00.02.00 to 00.00.02.03-RH1 qla2xxx: 8.01.02-d4 to 8.01.04-d7 qla6312: 8.01.02-d4 to 8.01.04-d7 sata_promise: 1.03 to 1.04 sata_vsc: 1.1 to 1.2 ibmvscsic: 1.5.5 to 1.5.6 ipr: 2.0.11.1 to 2.0.11.2

Added drivers :

dcdbas: 5.6.0-2 sata_mv: 0.6 sata_qstor: 0.05 sata_uli: 0.5 skge: 1.1 stex: 2.9.0.13 pdc_adma: 0.03

This update includes fixes for the security issues :

* a flaw in the USB devio handling of device removal that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2005-3055, moderate)

* a flaw in the ACL handling of nfsd that allowed a remote user to bypass ACLs for readonly mounted NFS file systems (CVE-2005-3623, moderate)

* a flaw in the netfilter handling that allowed a local user with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights to cause a buffer overflow (CVE-2006-0038, low)

* a flaw in the IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries strnlen_user() function that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or to retrieve random kernel data (CVE-2006-0456, important)

* a flaw in the keyctl functions that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or to read sensitive kernel memory (CVE-2006-0457, important)

* a flaw in unaligned accesses handling on Itanium processors that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-0742, important)

* a flaw in SELinux ptrace logic that allowed a local user with ptrace permissions to change the tracer SID to a SID of another process (CVE-2006-1052, moderate)

* an info leak on AMD-based x86 and x86_64 systems that allowed a local user to retrieve the floating point exception state of a process run by a different user (CVE-2006-1056, important)

* a flaw in IPv4 packet output handling that allowed a remote user to bypass the zero IP ID countermeasure on systems with a disabled firewall (CVE-2006-1242, low)

* a minor info leak in socket option handling in the network code (CVE-2006-1343, low)

* a flaw in the HB-ACK chunk handling of SCTP that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-1857, moderate)

* a flaw in the SCTP implementation that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (deadlock) (CVE-2006-2275, moderate)

* a flaw in the socket buffer handling that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-2446, important)

* a flaw in the signal handling access checking on PowerPC that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) or read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (CVE-2006-2448, important)

* a flaw in the netfilter SCTP module when receiving a chunkless packet that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (crash) (CVE-2006-2934, important)

There were several bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Updated ntp packages that fix several bugs are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's time with a reference time source.

The NTP daemon (ntpd), when run with the -u option and using a string to specify the group, uses the group ID of the user instead of the group, which causes ntpd to run with different privileges than intended. (CVE-2005-2496)

The following issues have also been addressed in this update: - The init script had several problems - The script executed on upgrade could fail - The man page for ntpd indicated the wrong option for specifying a chroot directory - The ntp daemon could crash with the message 'Exiting: No more memory!' - There is a new option for syncing the hardware clock after a successful run of ntpdate

Users of ntp should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Updated elfutils packages that address a minor security issue and various other issues are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The elfutils packages contain a number of utility programs and libraries related to the creation and maintenance of executable code.

The elfutils packages that originally shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 were GPL-licensed versions which lacked some functionality.
Previous updates provided fully functional versions of elfutils only under the OSL license. This update provides a fully functional, GPL-licensed version of elfutils.

In the OSL-licensed elfutils versions provided in previous updates, some tools could sometimes crash when given corrupted input files.
(CVE-2005-1704)

Also, when the eu-strip tool was used to create separate debuginfo files from relocatable objects such as kernel modules (.ko), the resulting debuginfo files (.ko.debug) were sometimes corrupted. Both of these problems are fixed in the new version.

Users of elfutils should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Updated XFree86 packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System, which provides the core functionality for the Linux graphical desktop.

An integer overflow flaw in the way the XFree86 server processes PCF files was discovered. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the XFree86 server.
(CVE-2006-3467)

Users of XFree86 should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

New Wireshark packages that fix various security vulnerabilities in Ethereal are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ethereal is a program for monitoring network traffic.

In May 2006, Ethereal changed its name to Wireshark. This update deprecates the Ethereal packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4 in favor of the supported Wireshark packages.

Several denial of service bugs were found in Ethereal's protocol dissectors. It was possible for Ethereal to crash or stop responding if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-3627, CVE-2006-3629, CVE-2006-3631)

Several buffer overflow bugs were found in Ethereal's ANSI MAP, NCP NMAS, and NDPStelnet dissectors. It was possible for Ethereal to crash or execute arbitrary code if it read a malformed packet off the network. (CVE-2006-3630, CVE-2006-3632)

Several format string bugs were found in Ethereal's Checkpoint FW-1, MQ, XML, and NTP dissectors. It was possible for Ethereal to crash or execute arbitrary code if it read a malformed packet off the network.
(CVE-2006-3628)

Users of Ethereal should upgrade to these updated packages containing Wireshark version 0.99.2, which is not vulnerable to these issues

Updated Apache httpd packages that correct security issues and resolve bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Apache HTTP Server is a popular Web server available for free.

A bug was found in Apache where an invalid Expect header sent to the server was returned to the user in an unescaped error message. This could allow an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack if a victim was tricked into connecting to a site and sending a carefully crafted Expect header. (CVE-2006-3918)

While a web browser cannot be forced to send an arbitrary Expect header by a third-party attacker, it was recently discovered that certain versions of the Flash plugin can manipulate request headers.
If users running such versions can be persuaded to load a web page with a malicious Flash applet, a cross-site scripting attack against the server may be possible.

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 systems, due to an unrelated issue in the handling of malformed Expect headers, the page produced by the cross-site scripting attack will only be returned after a timeout expires (2-5 minutes by default) if not first canceled by the user.

Users of httpd should update to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues.

Updated krb5 packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to correct a privilege escalation security flaw.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other through use of symmetric encryption and a trusted third party, the KDC.

A flaw was found where some bundled Kerberos-aware applications would fail to check the result of the setuid() call. On Linux 2.6 kernels, the setuid() call can fail if certain user limits are hit. A local attacker could manipulate their environment in such a way to get the applications to continue to run as root, potentially leading to an escalation of privileges. (CVE-2006-3083).

Users are advised to update to these erratum packages which contain a backported fix to correct this issue.

Updated GnuPG packages that fix a security issue is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

GnuPG is a utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures.

An integer overflow flaw was found in GnuPG. An attacker could create a carefully crafted message packet with a large length that could cause GnuPG to crash or possibly overwrite memory when opened.
(CVE-2006-3746)

All users of GnuPG are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated SeaMonkey packages that fix several security bugs in the mozilla package are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

The Mozilla Foundation has discontinued support for the Mozilla Suite.
This update deprecates the Mozilla Suite in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in favor of the supported SeaMonkey Suite.

This update also resolves a number of outstanding Mozilla security issues :

Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious web page could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-2776, CVE-2006-2784, CVE-2006-2785, CVE-2006-2787, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3812)

Several denial of service flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain web content. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2006-2779, CVE-2006-2780, CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3811)

Two flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey-mail displayed malformed inline vcard attachments. If a victim viewed an email message containing a carefully crafted vcard it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Mozilla-mail. (CVE-2006-2781, CVE-2006-3804)

A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey processed Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) markers in UTF-8 web pages. A malicious web page could execute a script within the browser that a web input sanitizer could miss due to a malformed 'script' tag. (CVE-2006-2783)

Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious web page could conduct a cross-site scripting attack or steal sensitive information (such as cookies owned by other domains). (CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3810)

A form file upload flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey handled JavaScript input object mutation. A malicious web page could upload an arbitrary local file at form submission time without user interaction.
(CVE-2006-2782)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey called the crypto.signText() JavaScript function. A malicious web page could crash the browser if the victim had a client certificate loaded.
(CVE-2006-2778)

Two HTTP response smuggling flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain invalid HTTP response headers. A malicious website could return specially crafted HTTP response headers which may bypass HTTP proxy restrictions. (CVE-2006-2786)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey processed Proxy AutoConfig scripts. A malicious Proxy AutoConfig server could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-3808)

A double free flaw was found in the way the nsIX509::getRawDER method was called. If a victim visited a carefully crafted web page, it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Mozilla.
(CVE-2006-2788)

Users of Mozilla are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains SeaMonkey version 1.0.3 that corrects these issues.

Updated SeaMonkey packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SeaMonkey is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor.

Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious web page could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3812)

Several denial of service flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain web content. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey. (CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3811)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey Messenger displayed malformed inline vcard attachments. If a victim viewed an email message containing a carefully crafted vcard, it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running SeaMonkey Messenger.
(CVE-2006-3804)

Several flaws were found in the way SeaMonkey processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious web page could conduct a cross-site scripting attack or steal sensitive information (such as cookies owned by other domains). (CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3810)

A flaw was found in the way SeaMonkey processed Proxy AutoConfig scripts. A malicious Proxy AutoConfig server could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-3808)

Users of SeaMonkey are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains SeaMonkey version 1.0.3 that corrects these issues.

Updated libtiff packages that fix several security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The libtiff package contains a library of functions for manipulating TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) files.

Tavis Ormandy of Google discovered a number of flaws in libtiff during a security audit. An attacker could create a carefully crafted TIFF file in such a way that it was possible to cause an application linked with libtiff to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2006-3459, CVE-2006-3460, CVE-2006-3461, CVE-2006-3462, CVE-2006-3463, CVE-2006-3464, CVE-2006-3465)

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported fixes for these issues.

Updated thunderbird packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

The Mozilla Foundation has discontinued support for the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 branch. This update deprecates the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 branch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in favor of the supported Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 branch.

This update also resolves a number of outstanding Thunderbird security issues :

Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious mail message could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-2776, CVE-2006-2784, CVE-2006-2785, CVE-2006-2787, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809)

Several denial of service flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain mail messages. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-2779, CVE-2006-2780, CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3811)

Several flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious mail message could conduct a cross-site scripting attack or steal sensitive information (such as cookies owned by other domains). (CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3810)

A form file upload flaw was found in the way Thunderbird handled JavaScript input object mutation. A malicious mail message could upload an arbitrary local file at form submission time without user interaction. (CVE-2006-2782)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Thunderbird called the crypto.signText() JavaScript function. A malicious mail message could crash the browser if the victim had a client certificate loaded.
(CVE-2006-2778)

A flaw was found in the way Thunderbird processed Proxy AutoConfig scripts. A malicious Proxy AutoConfig server could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install client malware.
(CVE-2006-3808)

Note: Please note that JavaScript support is disabled by default in Thunderbird. The above issues are not exploitable with JavaScript disabled.

Two flaws were found in the way Thunderbird displayed malformed inline vcard attachments. If a victim viewed an email message containing a carefully crafted vcard it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-2781, CVE-2006-3804)

A cross site scripting flaw was found in the way Thunderbird processed Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) markers in UTF-8 mail messages. A malicious web page could execute a script within the browser that a web input sanitizer could miss due to a malformed 'script' tag.
(CVE-2006-2783)

Two HTTP response smuggling flaws were found in the way Thunderbird processed certain invalid HTTP response headers. A malicious website could return specially crafted HTTP response headers which may bypass HTTP proxy restrictions. (CVE-2006-2786)

A double free flaw was found in the way the nsIX509::getRawDER method was called. If a victim visited a carefully crafted web page, it was possible to crash Thunderbird. (CVE-2006-2788)

Users of Thunderbird are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Thunderbird version 1.5.0.5 that corrects these issues.

Updated firefox packages that fix several security bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser.

The Mozilla Foundation has discontinued support for the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 branch. This update deprecates the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 branch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in favor of the supported Mozilla Firefox 1.5 branch.

This update also resolves a number of outstanding Firefox security issues :

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious web page could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-2776, CVE-2006-2784, CVE-2006-2785, CVE-2006-2787, CVE-2006-3807, CVE-2006-3809, CVE-2006-3812)

Several denial of service flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain web content. A malicious web page could crash the browser or possibly execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox. (CVE-2006-2779, CVE-2006-2780, CVE-2006-3801, CVE-2006-3677, CVE-2006-3113, CVE-2006-3803, CVE-2006-3805, CVE-2006-3806, CVE-2006-3811)

A cross-site scripting flaw was found in the way Firefox processed Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) markers in UTF-8 web pages. A malicious web page could execute a script within the browser that a web input sanitizer could miss due to a malformed 'script' tag. (CVE-2006-2783)

Several flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain JavaScript actions. A malicious web page could conduct a cross-site scripting attack or steal sensitive information (such as cookies owned by other domains). (CVE-2006-3802, CVE-2006-3810)

A form file upload flaw was found in the way Firefox handled JavaScript input object mutation. A malicious web page could upload an arbitrary local file at form submission time without user interaction.
(CVE-2006-2782)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Firefox called the crypto.signText() JavaScript function. A malicious web page could crash the browser if the victim had a client certificate loaded.
(CVE-2006-2778)

Two HTTP response smuggling flaws were found in the way Firefox processed certain invalid HTTP response headers. A malicious website could return specially crafted HTTP response headers which may bypass HTTP proxy restrictions. (CVE-2006-2786)

A flaw was found in the way Firefox processed Proxy AutoConfig scripts. A malicious Proxy AutoConfig server could execute arbitrary JavaScript instructions with the permissions of 'chrome', allowing the page to steal sensitive information or install browser malware.
(CVE-2006-3808)

A double free flaw was found in the way the nsIX509::getRawDER method was called. If a victim visited a carefully crafted web page, it was possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Firefox.
(CVE-2006-2788)

Users of Firefox are advised to upgrade to this update, which contains Firefox version 1.5.0.5 that corrects these issues.

Updated ruby packages that fix security issues are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming.

A number of flaws were found in the safe-level restrictions in Ruby.
It was possible for an attacker to create a carefully crafted malicious script that can allow the bypass of certain safe-level restrictions. (CVE-2006-3694)

Users of Ruby should update to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch and are not vulnerable to this issue.

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the eighth regular update.

This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

This is the eighth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

New features introduced by this update include :

  - addition of the adp94xx and dcdbas device drivers -     diskdump support on megaraid_sas, qlogic, and swap     partitions - support for new hardware via driver and     SCSI white-list updates

There were many bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

There were numerous driver updates and security fixes (elaborated below). Other key areas affected by fixes in this update include the networking subsystem, the NFS and autofs4 file systems, the SCSI and USB subsystems, and architecture-specific handling affecting AMD Opteron and Intel EM64T processors.

The following device drivers have been added or upgraded to new versions :

adp94xx -------- 1.0.8 (new) bnx2 ----------- 1.4.38 cciss ---------- 2.4.60.RH1 dcdbas --------- 5.6.0-1 (new) e1000 ---------- 7.0.33-k2 emulex --------- 7.3.6 forcedeth ------ 0.30 ipmi ----------- 35.13 qlogic --------- 7.07.04b6 tg3 ------------ 3.52RH

The following security bugs were fixed in this update :

  - a flaw in the USB devio handling of device removal that     allowed a local user to cause a denial of service     (crash) (CVE-2005-3055, moderate)

  - a flaw in the exec() handling of multi-threaded tasks     using ptrace() that allowed a local user to cause a     denial of service (hang of a user process)     (CVE-2005-3107, low)

  - a difference in 'sysretq' operation of EM64T (as opposed     to Opteron) processors that allowed a local user to     cause a denial of service (crash) upon return from     certain system calls (CVE-2006-0741 and CVE-2006-0744,     important)

  - a flaw in unaligned accesses handling on Intel Itanium     processors that allowed a local user to cause a denial     of service (crash) (CVE-2006-0742, important)

  - an info leak on AMD-based x86 and x86_64 systems that     allowed a local user to retrieve the floating point     exception state of a process run by a different user     (CVE-2006-1056, important)

  - a flaw in IPv4 packet output handling that allowed a     remote user to bypass the zero IP ID countermeasure on     systems with a disabled firewall (CVE-2006-1242, low)

  - a minor info leak in socket option handling in the     network code (CVE-2006-1343, low)

  - a flaw in IPv4 netfilter handling for the unlikely use     of SNMP NAT processing that allowed a remote user to     cause a denial of service (crash) or potential memory     corruption (CVE-2006-2444, moderate)

Note: The kernel-unsupported package contains various drivers and modules that are unsupported and therefore might contain security problems that have not been addressed.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Updated openssh packages that fix bugs in sshd are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

OpenSSH is OpenBSD's SSH (Secure SHell) protocol implementation. This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server.

An arbitrary command execution flaw was discovered in the way scp copies files locally. It is possible for a local attacker to create a file with a carefully crafted name that could execute arbitrary commands as the user running scp to copy files locally.
(CVE-2006-0225)

The SSH daemon, when restricting host access by numeric IP addresses and with VerifyReverseMapping disabled, allows remote attackers to bypass 'from=' and 'user@host' address restrictions by connecting to a host from a system whose reverse DNS hostname contains the numeric IP address. (CVE-2003-0386)

The following issues have also been fixed in this update :

* If the sshd service was stopped using the sshd init script while the main sshd daemon was not running, the init script would kill other sshd processes, such as the running sessions. For example, this could happen when the 'service sshd stop' command was issued twice.

* When privilege separation was enabled, the last login message was printed only for the root user.

* The sshd daemon was sending messages to the system log from a signal handler when debug logging was enabled. This could cause a deadlock of the user's connection.

All users of openssh should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Updated samba packages that fix a denial of service vulnerability are now available.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Samba provides file and printer sharing services to SMB/CIFS clients.

A denial of service bug was found in the way the smbd daemon tracks active connections to shares. It was possible for a remote attacker to cause the smbd daemon to consume a large amount of system memory by sending carefully crafted smb requests. (CVE-2006-3403)

Users of Samba are advised to upgrade to these packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated kdebase packages that resolve a security issue are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The kdebase packages provide the core applications for KDE, the K Desktop Environment.

A flaw was found in KDE where the kdesktop_lock process sometimes failed to terminate properly. This issue could either block the user's ability to manually lock the desktop or prevent the screensaver to activate, both of which could have a security impact for users who rely on these functionalities. (CVE-2006-2933)

Please note that this issue only affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

All users of kdebase should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a patch to resolve this issue.

Updated elfutils packages that address a minor security issue and various other issues are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The elfutils packages contain a number of utility programs and libraries related to the creation and maintenance of executable code.

The elfutils packages that originally shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 were GPL-licensed versions which lacked some functionality.
Previous updates provided fully functional versions of elfutils only under the OSL license. This update provides a fully functional, GPL-licensed version of elfutils.

In the OSL-licensed elfutils versions provided in previous updates, some tools could sometimes crash when given corrupted input files.
(CVE-2005-1704)

Also, when the eu-strip tool was used to create separate debuginfo files from relocatable objects such as kernel modules (.ko), the resulting debuginfo files (.ko.debug) were sometimes corrupted. Both of these problems are fixed in the new version.

Users of elfutils should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Updated gimp packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program.

Henning Makholm discovered a buffer overflow bug in The GIMP XCF file loader. An attacker could create a carefully crafted image that could execute arbitrary code if opened by a victim. (CVE-2006-3404)

Please note that this issue did not affect the gimp packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, or 3.

Users of The GIMP should update to these erratum packages which contain a backported fix to correct this issue.

Updated libwmf packages that fix a security flaw are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Libwmf is a library for reading and converting Windows MetaFile vector graphics (WMF). Libwmf is used by packages such as The GIMP and ImageMagick.

An integer overflow flaw was discovered in libwmf. An attacker could create a carefully crafted WMF flaw that could execute arbitrary code if opened by a victim. (CVE-2006-3376).

Users of libwmf should update to these packages which contain a backported security patch to correct this issue.

An updated GnuPG package that fixes a security issue is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

GnuPG is a utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures.

An integer overflow flaw was found in GnuPG. An attacker could create a carefully crafted message packet with a large length that could cause GnuPG to crash or possibly overwrite memory when opened.
(CVE-2006-3082)

All users of GnuPG are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated freetype packages that fix several security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

FreeType is a free, high-quality, and portable font engine.

Chris Evans discovered several integer underflow and overflow flaws in the FreeType font engine. If a user loads a carefully crafted font file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code as the user. While it is uncommon for a user to explicitly load a font file, there are several application file formats which contain embedded fonts that are parsed by FreeType. (CVE-2006-0747, CVE-2006-1861, CVE-2006-3467)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the FreeType font engine.
An application linked against FreeType can crash upon loading a malformed font file. (CVE-2006-2661)

Users of FreeType should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Updated mutt packages that fix a security issue are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mutt is a text-mode mail user agent.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Mutt processes an overly long namespace from a malicious imap server. In order to exploit this flaw a user would have to use Mutt to connect to a malicious IMAP server. (CVE-2006-3242)

Users of Mutt are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated kernel packages that fix a privilege escalation security issue in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available.

This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

During security research, Red Hat discovered a behavioral flaw in core dump handling. A local user could create a program that would cause a core file to be dumped into a directory they would not normally have permissions to write to. This could lead to a denial of service (disk consumption), or allow the local user to gain root privileges.
(CVE-2006-2451)

Prior to applying this update, users can remove the ability to escalate privileges using this flaw by configuring core files to dump to an absolute location. By default, core files are created in the working directory of the faulting application, but this can be overridden by specifying an absolute location for core files in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern. To avoid a potential denial of service, a separate partition for the core files should be used.

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Updated PHP packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Web server.

A directory traversal vulnerability was found in PHP. Local users could bypass open_basedir restrictions allowing remote attackers to create files in arbitrary directories via the tempnam() function.
(CVE-2006-1494)

The wordwrap() PHP function did not properly check for integer overflow in the handling of the 'break' parameter. An attacker who could control the string passed to the 'break' parameter could cause a heap overflow. (CVE-2006-1990)

A flaw was found in the zend_hash_del() PHP function. For PHP scripts that rely on the use of the unset() function, a remote attacker could force variable initialization to be bypassed. This would be a security issue particularly for installations that enable the 'register_globals' setting. 'register_globals' is disabled by default in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (CVE-2006-3017)

Users of PHP should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches that resolve these issues.

Updated vixie-cron packages that fix a privilege escalation issue are now available.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The vixie-cron package contains the Vixie version of cron. Cron is a standard UNIX daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times.

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way Vixie Cron runs programs; vixie-cron does not properly verify an attempt to set the current process user id succeeded. It was possible for a malicious local users who exhausted certain limits to execute arbitrary commands as root via cron. (CVE-2006-2607)

All users of vixie-cron should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated kdebase packages that correct a security flaw in kdm are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The kdebase packages provide the core applications for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. These core packages include the KDE Display Manager (KDM).

Ludwig Nussel discovered a flaw in KDM. A malicious local KDM user could use a symlink attack to read an arbitrary file that they would not normally have permissions to read. (CVE-2006-2449)

Note: this issue does not affect the version of KDM as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.

All users of KDM should upgrade to these updated packages which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

An updated squirrelmail package that fixes a local file disclosure flaw is now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4.

A local file disclosure flaw was found in the way SquirrelMail loads plugins. In SquirrelMail 1.4.6 or earlier, if register_globals is on and magic_quotes_gpc is off, it became possible for an unauthenticated remote user to view the contents of arbitrary local files the web server has read-access to. This configuration is neither default nor safe, and configuring PHP with the register_globals set on is dangerous and not recommended. (CVE-2006-2842)

Users of SquirrelMail should upgrade to this erratum package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Updated mysql packages that fix multiple security flaws are now available.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs and libraries.

A flaw was found in the way the MySQL mysql_real_escape() function escaped strings when operating in a multibyte character encoding. An attacker could provide an application a carefully crafted string containing invalidly-encoded characters which may be improperly escaped, leading to the injection of malicious SQL commands.
(CVE-2006-2753)

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way the MySQL server processed malformed usernames. An attacker could view a small portion of server memory by supplying an anonymous login username which was not null terminated. (CVE-2006-1516)

An information disclosure flaw was found in the way the MySQL server executed the COM_TABLE_DUMP command. An authenticated malicious user could send a specially crafted packet to the MySQL server which returned random unallocated memory. (CVE-2006-1517)

A log file obfuscation flaw was found in the way the mysql_real_query() function creates log file entries. An attacker with the the ability to call the mysql_real_query() function against a mysql server can obfuscate the entry the server will write to the log file. However, an attacker needed to have complete control over a server in order to attempt this attack. (CVE-2006-0903)

This update also fixes numerous non-security-related flaws, such as intermittent authentication failures.

All users of mysql are advised to upgrade to these updated packages containing MySQL version 4.1.20, which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Updated spamassassin packages that fix an arbitrary code execution flaw are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SpamAssassin provides a way to reduce unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) from incoming email.

A flaw was found with the way the Spamassassin spamd daemon processes the virtual pop username passed to it. If a site is running spamd with both the --vpopmail and --paranoid flags, it is possible for a remote user with the ability to connect to the spamd daemon to execute arbitrary commands as the user running the spamd daemon.
(CVE-2006-2447)

Note: None of the IMAP or POP servers shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 support vpopmail delivery. Running spamd with the --vpopmail and --paranoid flags is uncommon and not the default startup option as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Spamassassin, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, performs RBL lookups against visi.com to help determine if an email is spam.
However, this DNS RBL has recently disappeared, resulting in mail filtering delays and timeouts.

Users of SpamAssassin should upgrade to these updated packages containing version 3.0.6 and backported patches, which are not vulnerable to these issues.

Updated Dia packages that fix several buffer overflow bugs are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Dia drawing program is designed to draw various types of diagrams.

Several format string flaws were found in the way dia displays certain messages. If an attacker is able to trick a Dia user into opening a carefully crafted file, it may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running Dia. (CVE-2006-2453, CVE-2006-2480)

Users of Dia should update to these erratum packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available.

This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the security issues described below :

* a flaw in the IPv6 implementation that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) (CVE-2005-2973, important)

* a flaw in the bridge implementation that allowed a remote user to cause forwarding of spoofed packets via poisoning of the forwarding table with already dropped frames (CVE-2005-3272, moderate)

* a flaw in the atm module that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) via certain socket calls (CVE-2005-3359, important)

* a flaw in the NFS client implementation that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) via O_DIRECT writes (CVE-2006-0555, important)

* a difference in 'sysretq' operation of EM64T (as opposed to Opteron) processors that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) upon return from certain system calls (CVE-2006-0741 and CVE-2006-0744, important)

* a flaw in the keyring implementation that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (OOPS) (CVE-2006-1522, important)

* a flaw in IP routing implementation that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) via a request for a route for a multicast IP (CVE-2006-1525, important)

* a flaw in the SCTP-netfilter implementation that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) (CVE-2006-1527, important)

* a flaw in the sg driver that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (crash) via a dio transfer to memory mapped (mmap) IO space (CVE-2006-1528, important)

* a flaw in the threading implementation that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-1855, important)

* two missing LSM hooks that allowed a local user to bypass the LSM by using readv() or writev() (CVE-2006-1856, moderate)

* a flaw in the virtual memory implementation that allowed local user to cause a denial of service (panic) by using the lsof command (CVE-2006-1862, important)

* a directory traversal vulnerability in smbfs that allowed a local user to escape chroot restrictions for an SMB-mounted filesystem via '..\\' sequences (CVE-2006-1864, moderate)

* a flaw in the ECNE chunk handling of SCTP that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-2271, moderate)

* a flaw in the handling of COOKIE_ECHO and HEARTBEAT control chunks of SCTP that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (panic) (CVE-2006-2272, moderate)

* a flaw in the handling of DATA fragments of SCTP that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and crash) (CVE-2006-2274, moderate)

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.

Updated X.org packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

X.org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces such as GNOME and KDE are designed upon.

A buffer overflow flaw in the X.org server RENDER extension was discovered. A malicious authorized client could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the X.org server. (CVE-2006-1526)

Users of X.org should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch and is not vulnerable to this issue.

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.

Updated ruby packages that fix a denial of service issue are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming.

A bug was found in the way Ruby creates its xmlrpc and http servers.
The servers use a non blocking socket, which enables a remote user to cause a denial of service condition if they are able to transmit a large volume of information from the network server. (CVE-2006-1931)

Users of Ruby should update to these erratum packages, which contain a backported patch and are not vulnerable to this issue.

ID	Name	Severity
22424	CentOS 4 : firefox (CESA-2006:0675)	critical
22423	CentOS 3 / 4 : php (CESA-2006:0669)	high
22422	CentOS 3 / 4 : gzip (CESA-2006:0667)	high
22340	CentOS 3 : XFree86 (CESA-2006:0666)	high
22339	CentOS 4 : xorg-x11 (CESA-2006:0665)	high
22338	CentOS 3 / 4 : ncompress (CESA-2006:0663)	high
22337	CentOS 3 / 4 : wireshark (CESA-2006:0658)	medium
22321	CentOS 3 / 4 : openssl (CESA-2006:0661)	medium
22320	CentOS 3 / 4 : mailman (CESA-2006:0600)	medium
22282	CentOS 3 : kdegraphics (CESA-2006:0648)	high
22281	CentOS 4 : xorg-x11 (CESA-2006:0634)	high
22280	CentOS 3 / 4 : ImageMagick (CESA-2006:0633)	medium
22279	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0617)	high
22278	CentOS 4 : perl (CESA-2006:0605)	medium
22277	CentOS 4 : kdebase (CESA-2006:0582)	high
22276	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0575)	high
22275	CentOS 4 : ntp (CESA-2006:0393)	medium
22274	CentOS 4 : elfutils (CESA-2006:0354)	medium
22258	CentOS 3 : XFree86 (CESA-2006:0635)	high
22238	CentOS 3 / 4 : wireshark (CESA-2006:0602)	critical
22207	CentOS 3 / 4 : httpd (CESA-2006:0619)	medium
22197	CentOS 4 : krb5 (CESA-2006:0612)	high
22164	CentOS 3 / 4 : gnupg (CESA-2006:0615)	medium
22163	CentOS 4 : seamonkey (CESA-2006:0609)	high
22162	CentOS 3 : seamonkey (CESA-2006:0608)	high
22161	CentOS 3 / 4 : libtiff (CESA-2006:0603)	high
22138	CentOS 4 : thunderbird (CESA-2006:0611)	high
22137	CentOS 4 : Firefox (CESA-2006:0610)	high
22136	CentOS 3 / 4 : ruby (CESA-2006:0604)	medium
22135	CentOS 3 : kernel (CESA-2006:0437)	high
22134	CentOS 3 : openssh (CESA-2006:0298)	high
22104	CentOS 3 / 4 : samba (CESA-2006:0591)	medium
22103	CentOS 3 : kdebase (CESA-2006:0576)	medium
22082	CentOS 3 : elfutils (CESA-2006:0368)	medium
22067	CentOS 4 : gimp (CESA-2006:0598)	medium
22066	CentOS 4 : libwmf (CESA-2006:0597)	high
22065	CentOS 3 / 4 : gnupg (CESA-2006:0571)	medium
22064	CentOS 3 / 4 : freetype (CESA-2006:0500)	high
22039	CentOS 3 / 4 : mutt (CESA-2006:0577)	high
22038	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0574)	medium
22037	CentOS 3 / 4 : php (CESA-2006:0568)	high
22036	CentOS 4 : vixie-cron (CESA-2006:0539)	high
22002	CentOS 4 : kdebase (CESA-2006:0548)	medium
22001	CentOS 3 / 4 : squirrelmail (CESA-2006:0547)	high
22000	CentOS 4 : mysql (CESA-2006:0544)	high
21999	CentOS 4 : spamassassin (CESA-2006:0543)	medium
21998	CentOS 4 : dia (CESA-2006:0541)	high
21997	CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2006:0493)	high
21996	CentOS 4 : xorg-x11 (CESA-2006:0451)	low
21995	CentOS 4 : ruby (CESA-2006:0427)	medium

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