Ubuntu 4.10 : libxpm4 vulnerability (USN-27-1)

Chris Evans discovered several stack overflows in the versions of libXpm shipped by X.Org, XFree86, and LessTif. These overflows were fixed in the Warty development tree before its release. Mathieu Herrb of OpenBSD subsequently discovered that the original patch was insufficient to address these...

Ubuntu 4.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-94-1)

Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm. While a process running as root or another user was busy deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had...

Ubuntu 4.10 : xine-lib vulnerabilities (USN-42-1)

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in xine-lib, the video/audio codec library for Xine frontends xine-ui, totem-xine, kaffeine, and others. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious RTSP stream or a stream with specially crafted AIFF audio or PNM image data, they could...

Code injection

The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...

CVE-2006-0055

The ispellop function in ee on FreeBSD 4.10 to 6.0 uses predictable filenames and does not confirm which file is being written, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack when ee invokes ispell...

USN-239-1: libapache2-mod-auth-pgsql vulnerability

Several format string vulnerabilities were discovered in the error logging handling. By sending specially crafted user names, an unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this to crash the Apache server or possibly even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of Apache user 'www-data'...

USN-231-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Rudolf Polzer reported an abuse of the 'loadkeys' command. By redefining one or more keys and tricking another user like root into logging in on a text console and typing something that involves the redefined keys, a local user could cause execution of arbitrary commands with the privileges of th...

USN-230-2: ffmpeg/xine-lib vulnerability

USN-230-1 fixed a vulnerability in the ffmpeg library. The Xine library contains a copy of the ffmpeg code, thus it is vulnerable to the same flaw. For reference, this is the original advisory: Simon Kilvington discovered a buffer overflow in the avcodecdefaultgetbuffer function of the ffmpeg...

USN-222-2: Perl vulnerability

USN-222-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Perl interpreter. It was discovered that the version of USN-222-1 was not sufficient to handle all possible cases of malformed input that could lead to arbitrary code execution, so another update is necessary. Original advisory: Jack Louis of Dyad Security...

USN-225-1: Apache 2 vulnerability

A memory leak was found in the Apache 2 'worker' module in the handling of aborted TCP connections. By repeatedly triggering this situation, a remote attacker could drain all available memory, which eventually led to a Denial of Service...

USN-216-1: GDK vulnerabilities

Two integer overflows have been discovered in the XPM image loader of the GDK pixbuf library. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted XPM image with any Gnome desktop application that uses this library, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

USN-215-1: fetchmailconf vulnerability

Thomas Wolff and Miloslav Trmac discovered a race condition in the fetchmailconf program. The output configuration file was initially created with insecure permissions, and secure permissions were applied after writing the configuration into the file. During this time, the file was world readable...

USN-206-2: Fixed lynx packages for USN-206-1

USN-206-1 fixed a security vulnerability in lynx. Unfortunately the fix contained an error that caused lynx to crash under certain circumstances. The updated packages fix this...

[USN-210-1] netpbm vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-210-1 October 18, 2005 netpbm-free vulnerability CAN-2005-2978 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog Ubunt...

USN-209-1: SSH server vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability has been found in the SSH server. When the GSSAPIAuthentication option was enabled, the SSH server could send GSSAPI credentials even to users who attempted to log in with a method other than GSSAPI. This could inadvertently expose these credentials to an...

USN-203-1: Abiword vulnerabilities

Chris Evans discovered several buffer overflows in the RTF import module of AbiWord. By tricking a user into opening an RTF file with specially crafted long identifiers, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the AbiWord user...

[Full-disclosure] [USN-198-1] cfengine vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-198-1 October 10, 2005 cfengine vulnerabilities CAN-2005-2960, CAN-2005-3137 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 Warty...

USN-192-1: Squid vulnerability

Mike Diggins discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Squid. Sending specially crafted NTML authentication requests to Squid caused the server to crash...

USN-188-1: AbiWord vulnerability

Chris Evans discovered a buffer overflow in the RTF import module of AbiWord. By tricking a user into opening an RTF file with specially crafted long identifiers, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the AbiWord user...

USN-187-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A Denial of Service vulnerability was detected in the stack segment fault handler. A local attacker could exploit this by causing stack fault exceptions under special circumstances scheduling, which lead to a kernel crash. CAN-2005-1767 Vasiliy Averin discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability ...