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LANDesk® Security Review for the Week Ending November 14, 2008

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Created on: Nov 14, 2008 7:02 AM by LANDMark - Last Modified:  Nov 14, 2008 7:05 AM by LANDMark

LANDesk® Security Review for the Week Ending November 14, 2008

LANDesk® Patch Manager and Security Suite ("LDSS") provide customers with the latest security and application patches and updates for the most utilized software in your business. Maintaining a safe and secure environment helps to avoid downtime that will affect employees and productivity. The following items are the patch and update highlights from this past week.

Windows Content

Vulnerability Definitions - This week was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. Two security bulletins were released to address remote code execution issues. MS08-069 is rated critical and MS08-068 is rated important. Customers are encouraged to apply the patches for these bulletins as soon as possible. Updates for Microsoft Junk E-mail filters were also released this week. Additional third-party applications were released for Adobe, Yahoo!, and Mozilla products.

Mac Content

Vulnerability Definitions

Blocked Applications Updates

Definitions

Linux Content

Vulnerability Definitions

HPUX: 18 vulnerabilities;

V_INTL_PHSS_34392

V_INTL_PHSS_37972

V_INTL_PHSS_38840

V_INTL_PHSS_30012

V_INTL_PHSS_30807

V_INTL_PHSS_35433

V_INTL_PHSS_36394

V_INTL_PHSS_37666

V_INTL_UPDATE_01034_001

V_INTL_UPDATE_01034_002

V_INTL_UPDATE_01034_003

V_INTL_UPDATE_01034_004

V_INTL_UPDATE_01090_004

V_INTL_UPDATE_02186_001

V_INTL_UPDATE_02186_006

V_INTL_UPDATE_02313_001

V_INTL_UPDATE_02365_001

V_INTL_UPDATE_02365_003

Redhat: 3 ulnerabilities;

V_INTL_RHSA-2008-0939

V_INTL_RHSA-2008-0957

V_INTL_RHSA-2008-0971

SLES: 48 vulnerabilities;

V_INTL_patch-10142

V_INTL_patch-10177

V_INTL_patch-10184

V_INTL_patch-10196

V_INTL_patch-10668

V_INTL_patch-10997

V_INTL_patch-11001

V_INTL_patch-11078

V_INTL_patch-11326

V_INTL_patch-11328

V_INTL_patch-11533

V_INTL_patch-11537

V_INTL_patch-11542

V_INTL_patch-11717

V_INTL_patch-11761

V_INTL_patch-11977

V_INTL_patch-11981

V_INTL_patch-12040

V_INTL_patch-12043

V_INTL_patch-9211

V_INTL_patch-9215

V_INTL_RU-for-GNOME-and-others(20070314)

V_INTL_RU-for-KDE-components(20070313)

V_INTL_RU-for-Kernel-and-utilities(20070316)

V_INTL_RU-for-limal-apparmor-components(20070315)

V_INTL_RU-for-OpenOffice(20071113)

V_INTL_RU-for-OpenOffice_org(20070508)

V_INTL_RU-for-OpenOffice_org(20080411)

V_INTL_RU-for-orarun(20070315)

V_INTL_RU-for-pam_mount(20070315)

V_INTL_RU-for-redbook(20070316)

V_INTL_RU-for-Samba(20081001)

V_INTL_RU-for-SaX2-and-MozillaFirefox(20070316)

V_INTL_RU-for-sysconfig(20070911)

V_INTL_RU-for-the-GCC-suite-and-valgrind(20070315)

V_INTL_RU-for-Xen(20070316)

V_INTL_RU-for-Xorg,-glibc-and-other-packages(20070316)

V_INTL_RU-for-YaST2-and-components(20070316)

V_INTL_RU-for-yast2-apparmor-parser(20070315)

V_INTL_SU-for-Linux-kernel(20061218)

V_INTL_SU-for-Linux-kernel(20070219)

V_INTL_SU-for-Linux-kernel(20071128)

V_INTL_SU-for-Linux-kernel(20080125)

V_INTL_SU-for-Linux-kernel(20081008)

V_INTL_SU-for-X.org-X11(20071008)

V_INTL_SU-for-X11-libs-and-server(20080107)

V_INTL_SU-for-Xen(20061009)

V_INTL_SU-for-xorg-x11-Xnest(20080108)

Solaris: 1 changed vulnerabilities;

V_INTL_120954

Spyware Updates

Definitions

LANDesk® Tips

The LANDesk Spyware engine has been updated

  • The latest Spyware engine is available for LDSS 8.7 and 8.8. The update for 8.7 is available in the recently released Service Pack 6 and the update for 8.8 is available in the LANDesk Updates content. Below is a list of new features:

  • - x64 environment support
    - Improved LSP and NSP scanning
    - Improved Deep Scanning of Registry
    - Remediation of "User Mode Rootkits" during scan

  • In addition to these features both 8.7 and 8.8 will use the same definition file - core.aawdef. Please ensure both the core and all clients are updated.

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