Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell and Mandrakesoft on Wednesday released patches for several vulnerabilities, ranging from flaws that could allow denial-of-service attacks to buffer overflows.
Five of the updates released were rated “highly critical” on Thursday by security information company Secunia. Red Hat released three of the updates, Novell’s SuSE one and Mandrakesoft one.
SuSE issued updates to resolve flaws including a vulnerability that could allow malicious code to cause a local denial-of-service attack using a specially created Acrobat document. The vulnerabilities would affect most SuSE Linux-based products.
Another vulnerability in the Linux system components used to route network traffic could allow a malicious person to execute a local denial-of-service attack by inserting erroneous information into the netfilter data stream, according to SuSE.
Red Hat, meanwhile, issued a package of updates for its desktop, enterprise and advanced-workstation software.
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