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Security Flaw Hits Linux
News A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to attack, said sources in the security community on Monday.
[March 12, 2002, 8:52]
Flaw Weakens Linux Security Software
News The flaw, which affects versions 2.4.14 through 2.4.18-pre9 of the Linux kernel, is in a component of the Netfilter firewall software. Programmers have found a vulnerability in Linux that could allow protective firewall software to grant malicious...
[March 1, 2002, 10:08]
Security Flaw Hits Windows, Mac, Linux
News Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems.
[August 7, 2002, 11:54]
Linux Flaw Allows Local Attacks
News Programmers disclosed a security hole this week in a part of the heart of the Linux operating system that could let users of a machine take it over even if they don't have privileges to do so. The vulnerability affects both the 2.2 and 2.4 series...
[March 20, 2003, 11:03]
Linux Under Threat From 'security Update'
News One of the most successful worms of 2003, Swen or Gibe.F, was disguised as a Microsoft patch to fix a flaw in Internet Explorer. Linux maker Red Hat is warning users about an email that pretends to be an official security advisory but is actually a...
[October 25, 2004, 10:45]
SuSE Linux Reveals Account Management Security Hole
News Although the latest edition of SuSE Linux is unaffected by this flaw, SuSE recommends that users of older versions of SuSE and other distributions disable this package as soon as possible and contact their vendor for information about upgrading.
[October 26, 1999, 9:00]
RealPlayer And Helix Player In Linux Security Scare
News A flaw has been discovered in RealNetworks' RealPlayer version 10.0.5.756 Gold and Helix Player 1.0.5.757 Gold running on Linux or Unix operating systems, according to a report released Tuesday by the French Security Incident Response Team, or...
[September 28, 2005, 9:35]
KDE Flaw Opens Linux Systems To Attack
News The flaw, deemed "critical" by the research outfit FrSIRT, could allow a remote attacker to gain control over vulnerable systems. An attacker could craft a special UTF-8 encoded URI sequence to exploit the flaw, according to the advisory.
[January 23, 2006, 9:15]
Debian Team Confirm Linux Flaw Allowed Attack
News The Debian Project warned on Monday that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open-source software project's development servers. Members of the development team found the flaw in September and fixed the latest version...
[December 2, 2003, 10:15]
Gates Takes A Side-swipe At Apple, Linux Security
News Last August, many companies were left open to a new virus because a flaw in the Windows Update service led them to believe -- wrongly -- that they were protected from MSBlast. To say a system is secure because no one is attacking it is very...
[January 27, 2004, 10:25]
DB2 Flaw Leaves Database Defenceless
News A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorised users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue has revealed. The flaw was uncovered by Boston security company Core Security Technologies, which alerted IBM.
[September 18, 2003, 8:55]
Patch Fixes Flaw Behind Gentoo Attack
News The team responsible for Rsync, an open-source file-transfer program, has released a fix for a security flaw used in the recent compromise of a Gentoo Linux project server. The team said that the attacker used a flaw in Rsync along with a recently...
[December 5, 2003, 11:50]
Linux Kernel Flaw Allows DoS Attack
News Linux distributor Novell SuSE released a security advisory with a severity rating of nine out of 10 last week warning of a flaw in Linux kernel 2.6. Red Hat's enterprise product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is not affected by the flaw as it uses...
[October 25, 2004, 17:40]
Library Flaw Puts Applications At Risk
News A security flaw in a widely-used data compression technology could put many software programs at risk of attack, experts have warned. The flaw has been reported in version 1.2.2 of zlib, Secunia said, and earlier versions may also be affected.
[July 8, 2005, 9:15]
Open-source Flaw Threatens Microsoft
News A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and Unix systems for compression may affect some Microsoft products that also use the code. As reported earlier this week by ZDNet UK, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave...
[March 15, 2002, 8:57]
Java Flaw Opens Windows, Linux To Attack
News A flaw in Sun's plug-in for running Java on a variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to spread through Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs. Security information provider Secunia posted information about the flaw in an advisory...
[November 24, 2004, 8:40]
Linux Serves Up Triple Threat
News The third flaw affects the module for the kernel that supports ATI Technologies' Rage 128-bit video card. For example, the recently announced flaw in Windows that allows an attacker to remotely execute code on any computer running the Microsoft...
[February 20, 2004, 8:05]
Linux Users Warned About Firefox Flaw
News The flaw can only be exploited on Unix or Linux based environments and can be fixed by upgrading to Firefox 1.0.7. Security firm Secunia warned on Tuesday that a flaw rated as "extremely critical" has been found in Firefox 1.0.6.
[September 21, 2005, 17:10]
New Samba Flaw Compromises Linux Servers
News The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux systems.
[April 8, 2003, 7:59]
Dangerous Flaw In Lib CGI
News Symantec reported that "improper bounds checking" is the cause of a LibCGI vulnerability, and that the flaw could allow an attacker to gain Web server process privileges to a system. That is, this is a design flaw, rather than a coding mistake.
[December 17, 2002, 11:14]
