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[opensuse-security] [11.1] Wireshark security update has a strange version number
by Manfred Hollstein 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi there, I stumbled across this because I'm used to use apt-get for installing and updating packages. With a default configuration (just the RPMs from the DVD9 media linked into one RPMS.oss directory and the OS-11.1 updates repository as another installation source), it offers me to "update" the wireshark package. What's strange with this is, that this security update has version 1.0.4-2.1 while the original one from the installation DVD has version 1.0.4-2.5 So, I could work-around this by creating an entry in /etc/apt/preferences (similar to zypper's priority and locks mechanisms), but to me this sounds wrong. Shouldn't have an update package _always_ have a version number than its preceeding package, i.e. the one that the update should replace?!?! FWIW, I extracted both RPMs and compared the resulting directories, and there are indeed differences: # diff -rcp wireshark-1.0.4-2.1 wireshark-1.0.4-2.5 Files wireshark-1.0.4-2.1/usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0 and wireshark-1.0.4-2.5/usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0 differ Files wireshark-1.0.4-2.1/usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0.0.1 and wireshark-1.0.4-2.5/usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0.0.1 differ Files wireshark-1.0.4-2.1/usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz and wireshark-1.0.4-2.5/usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz differ Files wireshark-1.0.4-2.1/usr/share/man/man4/wireshark-filter.4.gz and wireshark-1.0.4-2.5/usr/share/man/man4/wireshark-filter.4.gz differ Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing that apt-get is better than zypper (in fact, zypper is much better than apt-get in the meantime, but there's a lot of legacy repositories I have created myself... and as long I'm still using older SUSE versions like SLES 10, openSUSE 10.3, there's not really an option to switch over to zypper completely yet), but shouldn't the build service ensure, that an updated package will get a monotonously increasing version number? And, shouldn't this "wireshark security update" be re-built with a proper version number? BTW, why have glibc and glibc-devel differing version numbers on i586 and i686? These are the packages on the DVD: i586/glibc-2.9-2.8.i586.rpm i586/glibc-devel-2.9-2.8.i586.rpm i686/glibc-2.9-2.3.i686.rpm i686/glibc-devel-2.9-2.3.i686.rpm This would lead to an "update" for glibc using apt-get as well... Architectural "compatible" packages should have identical version numbers, shouldn't they? TIA, cheers. l8er manfred

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[opensuse-security] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:001
by Thomas Biege 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUSE Security Summary Report Announcement ID: SUSE-SR:2009:001 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:00:00 +0000 Cross-References: CVE-2008-2380, CVE-2008-3933, CVE-2008-3934 CVE-2008-3963, CVE-2008-4097, CVE-2008-4098 CVE-2008-4225, CVE-2008-4314, CVE-2008-4552 CVE-2008-4575, CVE-2008-4639, CVE-2008-4640 CVE-2008-4641, CVE-2008-4680, CVE-2008-4681 CVE-2008-4682, CVE-2008-4683, CVE-2008-4684 CVE-2008-4685, CVE-2008-4864, CVE-2008-5006 CVE-2008-5031, CVE-2008-5285, CVE-2008-5514 CVE-2008-5517, CVE-2008-5617 Content of this advisory: 1) Solved Security Vulnerabilities: - ethereal, wireshark - mysql - imap - rsyslog - courier-authlib - nfs-utils - libxml2 - python - jhead - git - samba - vinagre - opera 2) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds: 3) Authenticity Verification and Additional Information ______________________________________________________________________________ 1) Solved Security Vulnerabilities To avoid flooding mailing lists with SUSE Security Announcements for minor issues, SUSE Security releases weekly summary reports for the low profile vulnerability fixes. The SUSE Security Summary Reports do not list or download URLs like the SUSE Security Announcements that are released for more severe vulnerabilities. Fixed packages for the following incidents are already available on our FTP server and via the YaST Online Update. - ethereal, wireshark An update of wireshark/ethereal was released to fix various vulnerabili- ties: CVE-2008-3933 (crash when processing compressed data), CVE-2008-3934 (crash when processing rf5 files), CVE-2008-4680 (USB dissector crash), CVE-2008-4681 (Bluetooth RFCOMM dissector crash), CVE-2008-4682 (Tamos CommView dissector crash), CVE-2008-4683 (Bluetooth ACL dissector crash), CVE-2008-4684 (PRP and MATE dissector crash) and CVE-2008-4685 (Q.931 dissector crash). CVE-2008-5285 (SMTP dissector infinite loop) and an infinite loop problem in the WLCCP dissector Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1, NLD 9 SDK, Novell Linux POS 9, Open Enterprise Server, SLES 9, SLE SDK 10 SP2, SLED 10 SP2, SLES 10 SP2 - mysql Due a flaw users could access tables of other users (CVE-2008-4097, CVE-2008-4098); additionally empty bit-strings in a query could crash the MySQL server (CVE-2008-3963) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0, NLD 9 SDK, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell Linux POS 9, Open Enterprise Server, SLES 9, SLES SDK 9 - imap Insufficient buffer length checks in the imap client library may crash applications that use the library to print formatted email addresses. The imap daemon itself is not affected but certain versions of e.g. the php imap module are (CVE-2008-5514). The client library could also crash when a rogue server unexpectedly closes the connection (CVE-2008-5006). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - rsyslog rsyslog ignored the $AllowedSender configuration directive, therefore accepting log messages from anyone (CVE-2008-5617). Additionally imudp logged a message when unauthorized senders tried to send to it, therefore allowing attackers to flood the log CVE-2008-5618). Affected products: openSUSE 11.1 - courier-authlib Insufficient quoting allowed attackers to inject SQL statements when using the pgsql backend (CVE-2008-2380). Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - nfs-utils This update of nfs-utils fixes the handling of the tcp wrapper ACLs. (CVE-2008-4552) Affected products: Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell Linux POS 9, Open Enterprise Server, SLE 10 DEBUGINFO SP2, SLED 10 SP2, SLES 10 SP2, SLES 9 - libxml2 libxml2 could run into an endless loop when processing specially crafted XML files (CVE-2008-4225) Affected products: NLD 9 SDK, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell Linux POS 9, Open Enterprise Server, SLES 9, SLES SDK 9, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86, SLE 10 DEBUGINFO SP2, SLED 10 SP1, SLED 10 SP2, SLES 10 SP1, SLES 10 SP2 - python Integer Overflows in the python imageop module and in the expandtabs method potentially allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-4864, CVE-2008-5031) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.0, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Novell Linux POS 9, Open Enterprise Server, SLES 9, SLE SDK 10 SP2, SLED 10 SP2, SLES 10 SP2 - jhead An update of jhead fixes several security problems: - CVE-2008-4575: buffer overflow in DoCommand() - CVE-2008-4639: local symlink attack - CVE-2008-4640: DoCommand() allowed deletion of arbitrary files - CVE-2008-4641: execution of arbitrary shell commands in DoCommand() Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - git Insufficient quoting of shell characters allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the git web interface (CVE-2008-5517) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3 - samba This update of samba fixes a bug that allowed the client to retrieve arbitrary memory content from the server process. (CVE-2008-4314) Additionally another bug was fixed that affects environments that enabled registry shares by setting "registry shares = yes". In this case an authenticated user is accidently allowed to access the root file- system "/". (CVE-2009-0022) Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 - vinagre A format string problem in vinagre potentially allowed malicious VNC servers to have a vinagre client that connects to the server execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-5660) Affected products: openSUSE 11.0-11.1 - opera Opera 9.63 fixes the following security problems: - Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code - HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code. - Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code. - Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds. - Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting. - Fixed an issue that could reveal random data. - SVG images embedded using <img> tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content. Affected products: openSUSE 10.3-11.1 ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) Pending Vulnerabilities, Solutions, and Work-Arounds none ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) 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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)opensuse.org>. opensuse-security-announce(a)opensuse.org - SUSE's announce-only mailing list. Only SUSE's security announcements are sent to this list. To subscribe, send an e-mail to <opensuse-security-announce+subscribe(a)opensuse.org>. ===================================================================== SUSE's security contact is <security(a)suse.com> or <security(a)suse.de>. The <security(a)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. 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[opensuse-security] OpenVAS likes to create security test environments for SUSE products
by Jan-Oliver Wagner 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hi, the network security scanner OpenVAS [1] has progressed a lot since I mentioned it here on this list first time. Seem like it even made it into SUSE [2]. Now we are working on a automatic generator for security checks for SUSE based on the SUSE security announcements, like this one [3]. The generator creates so-called NVTs (Network Vulerability Tests) for the language NASL and also for OVAL. This works well for the openSUSE distributions because [3] contains the RPM IDs to check for. It is not so easy for products like SLES where you have to follow a couple of links before you see the packages. This is not so simple to automize. Do you see any chance to make life easier here? Also, we are lacking identifier strings for all of the different products. We usually look into /etc/SuSE-release to find out. Is there a list somewhere with _all_ identifiers? Best regards Jan [1] http://www.openvas.org [2] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/openvas:/ [3] http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2008_55_mozilla.html -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335 08 30 | http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help(a)opensuse.org

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