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The Wednesday security update pile


CentOS has updated the kernel (multiple vulnerabilities) and libxslt (code execution).

Debian has updated peercast (remotely exploitable buffer overflow) and gnome-peercast (ditto, with an additional overflow from 2007).

Fedora has updated gnutls (F7, F8, F9: multiple vulnerabilities), django (F7, F8, F9: cross-site scripting), and dbmail (F9: authentication bypass).

Gentoo has updated perl (double-free vulnerability), firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, and xulrunner (long list of vulnerabilities), and clamav (multiple, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities).

Mandriva has updated the kernel (multiple vulnerabilities) and the kernel again (even more vulnerabilities).

Red Hat has updated libxslt (code execution), setroubleshoot (file overwrite and HTML injection), vsftpd (denial of service), dovecot (access to other users' mail), bind (multiple vulnerabilities), mysql (multiple vulnerabilities), nss_ldap (information disclosure), and compiz (screen saver bypass).

Ubuntu has updated openssl-blacklist (improved detection of weak keys) and gnutls (multiple vulnerabilities).

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