Debian DSA-959-1 : unalz - buffer overflow

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that unalz, a decompressor for ALZ archives, performs insufficient bounds checking when parsing file names. This can lead to arbitrary code execution if an attacker provides a crafted ALZ archive. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

Debian DSA-886-1 : chmlib - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chmlib, a library for dealing with CHM format files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-2659 Palasik Sandor discovered a buffer overflow in the LZX decompression method. - CVE-2005-2930 A...

Debian DSA-880-1 : phpmyadmin - several vulnerabilities

Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpmyadmin, a set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-2869 Andreas Kerber and Michal Cihar discovered several...

Debian DSA-1044-1 : mozilla-firefox - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-4134 Web pages with extremely long titles cause subsequent launches of the browser to appear to 'hang' for up to a few...

Debian DSA-1051-1 : mozilla-thunderbird - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla Thunderbird. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-2353 The 'run-mozilla.sh' script allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files when debugging is enable...

Debian DSA-940-1 : gpdf - buffer overflows

'infamous41md' and Chris Evans discovered several heap based buffer overflows in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in gpdf, the GNOME version of the Portable Document Format viewer, and which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly...

Debian DSA-873-1 : net-snmp - programming error

A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agents that have opened a stream based protocol e.g. TCP but not UDP. By default, Net-SNMP does not open a TCP port. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-935-1 : libapache2-mod-auth-pgsql - format string vulnerability

iDEFENSE reports that a format string vulnerability in modauthpgsql, a library used to authenticate web users against a PostgreSQL database, could be used to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the httpd user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-874-1 : lynx - buffer overflow

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in lynx, a text-mode browser for the WWW that can be remotely exploited. During the handling of Asian characters when connecting to an NNTP server lynx can be tricked to write past the boundary of a buffer which can lead to the execution of arbitrary...

Debian DSA-1088-1 : centericq - buffer overflow

Mehdi Oudad and Kevin Fernandez discovered a buffer overflow in the ktools library which is used in centericq, a text-mode multi-protocol instant messenger client, which may lead local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-877-1 : gnump3d - XSS, directory traversal

Steve Kemp discovered two vulnerabilities in gnump3d, a streaming server for MP3 and OGG files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-3122 The 404 error page does not strip malicious JavaScript content from the resulting page, which would ...

Debian DSA-1121-1 : postgrey - format string

Peter Bieringer discovered that postgrey, a greylisting implementation for Postfix, is vulnerable to a format string attack that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to the daemon. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-1016-1 : evolution - format string vulnerabilities

Ulf Harnhammar discovered several format string vulnerabilities in Evolution, a free groupware suite, that could lead to crashes of the application or the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-1006-1 : wzdftpd - missing input sanitising

'kcope' discovered that the wzdftpd FTP server lacks input sanitising for the SITE command, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...

Debian DSA-1033-1 : horde3 - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Horde web application framework, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary web script code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-4190 Several Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerabiliti...

Debian DSA-919-2 : curl - buffer overflow

The upstream developer of curl, a multi-protocol file transfer library, informed us that the former correction to several off-by-one errors are not sufficient. For completeness please find the original bug description below : Several problems were discovered in libcurl, a multi-protocol file...

Debian DSA-1046-1 : mozilla - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-2353 The 'run-mozilla.sh' script allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files when debugging is enabled via a...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-059 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (924164)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-059 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution 924164 Published: October 10, 2006 Version: 1.0 Summary Who Should Read this Document: Customers who use Microsoft Excel Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution Maximum Severity Rating...

ZDI-06-033: Microsoft Office Excel File Format DATETIME Record Parsing Vulnerability

ZDI-06-033: Microsoft Office Excel File Format DATETIME Record Parsing Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-033.html October 10, 2006 -- CVE ID: CVE-2006-2387 -- Affected Vendor: Microsoft -- Affected Products: Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 Microsoft Office XP SP3 Microsof...

CVE-2006-2387

Microsoft Excel contains a remote-code-execution vulnerability CVE-2006-2387 in the parsing of a malformed DATETIME record within XLS files. Affected products include Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 for Mac, v.X for Mac, Excel Viewer 2003, and Microsoft Works Suite 2004–2006. The root cause is insuf...