Today's Security Advisories
Moderately critical
Description:
Fedora has issued an update for openoffice. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
Solution:
Apply updated Fedora Core 3
less critical
Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for rsnapshot. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
Solution:
Update "net-misc/rsnapshot" to 1.2.1 or 1.1.7, or later.
Moderately critical
Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for rsnapshot. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
Solution:
Update "net-misc/rsnapshot" to 1.2.1 or 1.1.7, or later.
Not critical
Description:
MandrakeSoft has issued an update for gaim. This fixes three weaknesses, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
Solution:
Apply updated packages.
Less critical
Description:
Debian has issued an update for mysql. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and potentially compromise a vulnerable system and by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
Solution:
Apply updated packages.
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