CVE-2015-2305: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Integer overflow in the regcomp implementation in the Henry Spencer BSD regex library aka rxspencer alpha3.8.g5 on 32-bit platforms, as used in NetBSD through 6.1.5 and other products, might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large regular expression that leads to a...

Fedora 20 : ettercap-0.8.2-1.fc20 (2015-4020)

0.8.2-Ferri Bug Fix !! Fixed some openssl deprecated functions usage !! Fixed log file ownership !! Fixed mixed output print !! Fixed dropprivs function usage !! Fixed nopromisc option usage. !! Fixed missing break in parser code. !! Improved redirect commands !! Fix truncated VLAN packet headers...

Debian DLA-113-1 : bsd-mailx security update

It was discovered that bsd-mailx, an implementation of the 'mail' command, had an undocumented feature which treats syntactically valid email addresses as shell commands to execute. Users who need this feature can re-enable it using the 'expandaddr' in an appropriate mailrc file. This update also...

Fedora 22 : ettercap-0.8.2-1.fc22 (2015-4009)

0.8.2-Ferri Bug Fix !! Fixed some openssl deprecated functions usage !! Fixed log file ownership !! Fixed mixed output print !! Fixed dropprivs function usage !! Fixed nopromisc option usage. !! Fixed missing break in parser code. !! Improved redirect commands !! Fix truncated VLAN packet headers...

Taming the wild copy: Parallel Thread Corruption

Posted by Chris Evans, Winner of the occasional race Back in 2002, a very interesting vulnerability was found and fixed in the Apache web server. Relating to a bug in chunked encoding handing, the vulnerability caused a memcpy call with a negative length with the destination on the stack. Of...

PT-2015-5704

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NetBSD versions prior to 6.1.5 Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the regcomp implementation in the Henry Spencer BSD regex library, which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. This might allow attackers to execute...

Internet Bug Bounty: Heap overflow in H. Spencer’s regex library on 32 bit systems

The IBB's programs provide a great incentive for me to find vulnerabilities in open source software. With this one I set out to find a vulnerability in PHP and discovered that the vulnerability that I found exists in a wider constellation of applications, including BSD libc's. IBB's Alex Rice's...

Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability

Overview A regular expressions C library originally written by Henry Spencer is vulnerable to a heap overflow in some circumstances. Description CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow From the researcher, the variable len that holds the length of a regular expression string is "enlarged to such an...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2455-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : bsd-mailx vulnerability (USN-2455-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2455-1 advisory. It was discovered that bsd-mailx contained a feature that allowed syntactically valid email addresses to be treated as shell commands. A remote attacker could...

USN-2455-1: bsd-mailx vulnerability

It was discovered that bsd-mailx contained a feature that allowed syntactically valid email addresses to be treated as shell commands. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a valid email address to execute arbitrary commands. This functionality has now been disabled by default, and...

USN-2455-1 bsd-mailx vulnerability

It was discovered that bsd-mailx contained a feature that allowed syntactically valid email addresses to be treated as shell commands. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a valid email address to execute arbitrary commands. This functionality has now been disabled by default, and...

AZL-36961 CVE-2004-2771 affecting package mailx for versions less than 12.5-36

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address...

CVE-2004-2771

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address...

CVE-2004-2771

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address...

UBUNTU-CVE-2004-2771

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address...

CVE-2004-2771

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address...

CVE-2004-2771

CVE-2004-2771 affects mailx (Heirloom mailx <=12.5 and BSD mailx <=8.1.2). The vulnerability arises from parsing of email addresses, allowing a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands via shell metacharacters in the address. Several connected records corroborate im...

CVE-2004-2771: Improper Input Validation

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3104-1] bsd-mailx security update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3104-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer December 16, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...