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SUSE-SU-2016:2397-1
Not scored
Security update for flex, at, bogofilter, cyrus-imapd, kdelibs4, libQtWebKit4, libbonobo, mdbtools, netpbm, openslp, sgmltool, virtuoso, libqt5-qtwebkit
Various packages included vulnerable parsers generated by 'flex'.
This update provides a fixed 'flex' package and also rebuilds of packages
that might have security issues caused by the auto generated code.
Flex itself was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the generated scanner
(bsc#990856, CVE-2016-6354)
Packages that were rebuilt with the fixed flex:
- at
- bogofilter
- cyrus-imapd
- kdelibs4
- libQtWebKit4
- libbonobo
- mdbtools
- netpbm
- openslp
- sgmltool
- virtuoso
Also libqt5-qtwebkit received an additional security fix:
- CVE-2015-8079: QtWebKit logs visited URLs to WebpageIcons.db in private browsing mode (bsc#954210).
Exploit probability
Not scored
Published
September 27, 2016
Required by
Not available
Last source change
February 4, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
at
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
bogofilter
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
kdelibs4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
libQtWebKit4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
libbonobo
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
netpbm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1
openslp
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
at
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
cyrus-imapd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
flex
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
libbonobo
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
kdelibs4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
libQtWebKit4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
libbonobo
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
netpbm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
openslp
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
at
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
cyrus-imapd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
flex
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
kdelibs4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
libQtWebKit4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
libbonobo
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
netpbm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
openslp
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
flex
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
libQtWebKit4
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
mdbtools
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
netpbm
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
openslp
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1
sgmltool
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 SP1
bogofilter
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
SUSE-SU-2016:2397-1
Various packages included vulnerable parsers generated by 'flex'.
This update provides a fixed 'flex' package and also rebuilds of packages
that might have security issues caused by the auto generated code.
Flex itself was updated to fix a buffer overflow in the generated scanner
(bsc#990856, CVE-2016-6354)
Packages that were rebuilt with the fixed flex:
- at
- bogofilter
- cyrus-imapd
- kdelibs4
- libQtWebKit4
- libbonobo
- mdbtools
- netpbm
- openslp
- sgmltool
- virtuoso
Also libqt5-qtwebkit received an additional security fix:
- CVE-2015-8079: QtWebKit logs visited URLs to WebpageIcons.db in private browsing mode (bsc#954210).
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05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence