Frugalware Security Announcements (FSAs)

This is a list of security announcments that have been released for the current stable version of Frugalware

kernel

  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 2.6.17-5
  • Unaffected: 2.6.17-6siwenna1

Ang Way Chuang has reported a vulnerability in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the ULE (Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation) decapsulation code when processing ULE packets. This can be exploited to crash the system by sending a malicious ULE packet with an SNDU (Sub Network Data Unit) size of 0

php

  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 5.1.6-1
  • Unaffected: 5.1.6-2siwenna1

A vulnerability has been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system. Maksymilian Arciemowicz has reported a vulnerability in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

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gzip-devel

  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 1.3.5-1
  • Unaffected: 1.3.5-2siwenna1

Tavis Ormandy has reported some vulnerabilities in gzip, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

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openvpn

  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 2.0.8-1siwenna1
  • Unaffected: 2.0.9-1siwenna1

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenVPN, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

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