Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : xmms vulnerabilities (USN-445-1)

Sven Krewitt of Secunia Research discovered that XMMS did not correctly handle BMP images when loading GUI skins. If a user were tricked into loading a specially crafted skin, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-469-1)

Gaetan Leurent showed a weakness in APOP authentication. An attacker posing as a trusted server could recover portions of the user's password via multiple authentication attempts. CVE-2007-1558 Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a...

CVE-2007-4570

CVE-2007-4570 concerns an algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the MCS translation daemon (mcstrans) version 0.2.3 that allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service by targeting a large range of compartments in sensitivity labels. Public documents from various advisories (ELSA-2007-054...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-490-1)

Various flaws were discovered in the layout and JavaScript engines. By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. CVE-2007-3734, CVE-2007-3735 Flaws were discovered in the JavaScript methods addEventListener and setTimeo...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities (USN-431-1)

The SSLv2 protocol support in the NSS library did not sufficiently check the validity of public keys presented with a SSL certificate. A malicious SSL website using SSLv2 could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. CVE-2007-0008 The SSLv2 protocol support ...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-493-1)

A flaw was discovered in handling of 'about:blank' windows used by addons. A malicious website could exploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data such as passwords, of other web pages. CVE-2007-3844 Jesper Johansson discovered that spaces and double-quotes were not correctly...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : kdelibs vulnerabilities (USN-447-1)

It was discovered that Konqueror did not correctly handle iframes from JavaScript. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious website, Konqueror could crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2007-1308 A flaw was discovered in how Konqueror handled PASV FTP responses. If a user were...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : redhat-cluster-suite vulnerability (USN-489-2)

USN-489-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. This update provides the corresponding fixes for the redhat cluster suite kernel sources. A flaw was discovered in the cluster manager. A remote attacker could connect to the DLM port and block further DLM operations. CVE-2007-3380. Note that...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : ipsec-tools vulnerability (USN-450-1)

A flaw was discovered in the IPSec key exchange server 'racoon'. Remote attackers could send a specially crafted packet and disrupt established IPSec tunnels, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : tcpdump vulnerability (USN-429-1)

Moritz Jodeit discovered that tcpdump had an overflow in the 802.11 packet parser. Remote attackers could send specially crafted packets, crashing tcpdump, possibly leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : samba vulnerabilities (USN-460-1)

Paul Griffith and Andrew Hogue discovered that Samba did not fully drop root privileges while translating SIDs. A remote authenticated user could issue SMB operations during a small window of opportunity and gain root privileges. CVE-2007-2444 Brian Schafer discovered that Samba did not handle ND...

CVE-2007-5396

Miranda IM 0.7.1 is affected by a format-string vulnerability in the ext_yahoo_contact_added function (yahoo.c) that allows remote code execution via a Y7 Buddy Authorization packet containing format specifiers in the contact Yahoo! handle (who). This CVE-2007-5396 issue is triggered by crafted i...

Fixed XSS vulnerability at odiumclothing.net

Security researcher rootop, has submitted on 11/10/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting odiumclothing.net, which at the time of submission ranked 507136 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 13/10/2007. It is...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-477-1)

Wei Wang discovered that the krb5 RPC library did not correctly handle certain error conditions. A remote attacker could cause kadmind to free an uninitialized pointer, leading to a denial of service or possibly execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. CVE-2007-2442 Wei Wang discovered...

RealNetworks RealPlayer Playlist Handling Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-5601)

RealNetworks RealPlayer and RealOne Player are media player applications that are capable of playing back numerous multimedia file formats. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer application. The vulnerability is due to an error in a RealPlayer ActiveX contro...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : squid vulnerabilities (USN-414-1)

David Duncan Ross Palmer and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid incorrectly handled special characters in FTP URLs. Remote users with access to squid could crash the server leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-0247 Erick Dantas Rotole and Henrik Nordstrom discovered that squid could end u...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : firefox vulnerability (USN-443-1)

A flaw was discovered in how Firefox handled PASV FTP responses. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious FTP server, a remote attacker could perform a port-scan of machines within the user's network, leading to private information disclosure. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : dhcp vulnerability (USN-531-1)

Nahuel Riva and Gerardo Richarte discovered that the DHCP server did not correctly handle certain client options. A remote attacker could send malicious DHCP replies to the server and execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Ubuntu 6.10 / 7.04 : hplip vulnerability (USN-530-1)

It was discovered that the hpssd tool of hplip did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the hplip user. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-428-1)

Several flaws have been found that could be used to perform Cross-site scripting attacks. A malicious website could exploit these to modify the contents or steal confidential data such as passwords from other opened web pages. CVE-2006-6077, CVE-2007-0780, CVE-2007-0800, CVE-2007-0981,...