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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2009.1534
openSUSE 10.3 has reached End of Life
17 November 2009
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: openSUSE 10.3
Publisher: SUSE
Operating System: OpenSUSE
Impact/Access: Reduced Security -- Unknown/Unspecified
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
Original Bulletin:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00008.html
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Hi,
With the release of an cups security fix on Friday 13th we have released
the last update for openSUSE 10.3.
It is now officially discontinued and out of support.
openSUSE 10.3 was released on October 4 2006.
Some statistics on the released patches:
Total updates: 715 (+72)
Security: 521 (+35)
Recommended: 191 (+37)
Optional: 3 ( 0)
CVE Entries: 1006 (+300)
There is a 7% increase in the number of security updates compared to
openSUSE 10.2. But there appears to be a 42% increase in CVE numbers fixed.
Top issues (compared to 10.2 for issues down to 5):
13 opera (-1)
13 MozillaFirefox (0)
12 java-1_6_0-sun (new, java-1_5_0-sun in 10.2 had 8)
12 cups (0)
12 clamav (-3)
11 kernel (+3)
10 seamonkey (+1)
10 java-1_5_0-sun (+2)
9 wireshark (+2)
9 MozillaThunderbird (0)
9 acroread (+2)
7 moodle (+2)
7 apache2-mod_php5 (+1)
6 xpdf (new)
6 xine-devel (+1)
6 mozilla-xulrunner181 (+1)
6 libxml2 (new)
6 libpng (new)
6 libopenssl-devel (new)
6 flash-player (0)
5 squirrelmail (-3)
5 phpMyAdmin (new)
5 bind (0)
5 apache2 (new)
And top issues sorted by CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) count
(down to 5) (compared to 10.2 for the top):
123 MozillaFirefox (+7)
110 seamonkey (+33)
75 java-1_6_0-sun (new)
70 java-1_5_0-sun (+47)
58 MozillaThunderbird (+1)
55 kernel (-3)
52 acroread (+42)
46 mozilla-xulrunner181 (+14)
34 flash-player (+22)
34 cups (+17)
28 wireshark (+11)
24 clamav (+5)
23 xine-devel (+17)
21 xpdf (new)
19 ruby (+10)
19 phpMyAdmin (+12)
19 opera (+8)
19 apache2 (+6)
17 poppler (+12)
16 apache2-mod_php5 (-25)
14 libmysqlclient-devel (+5)
12 krb5 (-3)
11 xgl (+4)
11 kdegraphics3 (new)
10 OpenOffice_org (-1)
10 moodle (+4)
10 libopenssl-devel
9 tomcat55
9 python
9 postgresql
8 squirrelmail
8 lighttpd
8 GraphicsMagick
7 libxml2
7 gvim
7 finch
7 cifs-mount
7 apache2-mod_jk
6 xorg-x11-Xvnc
6 qemu
6 pcre
6 ghostscript-devel
6 dovecot
5 xorg-x11-Xnest
5 viewvc
5 openldap2
5 NX
5 novell-ipsec-tools
5 libpng
5 horde
5 gstreamer010-plugins-good
5 gnutls
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