USN-74-1: Postfix vulnerability

Jean-Samuel Reynaud noticed a programming error in the IPv6 handling code of Postfix when /proc/net/ifinet6 is not available which is the case in Ubuntu since Postfix runs in a chroot. If "permitmxbackup" was enabled in the "smtpdrecipientrestrictions", Postfix turned into an open relay, i. e...

[USN-71-1] PostgreSQL vulnerability

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-71-1 February 01, 2005 postgresql vulnerability http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php =========================================================== A security issue affects the following...

USN-71-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

John Heasman discovered a local privilege escalation in the PostgreSQL server. Any user could use the LOAD extension to load any shared library into the PostgreSQL server; the library's initialisation function was then executed with the permissions of the server. Now the use of LOAD is restricted...

USN-70-1: Perl DBI module vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that the module DBI::ProxyServer in Perl's DBI library created a PID file in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking...

USN-69-1: Evolution vulnerability

Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in camel-lock-helper. An user-supplied length value was not validated, so that a value of -1 caused a buffer allocation of 0 bytes; this buffer was then filled by an arbitrary amount of user-supplied data. A local attacker or a malicious POP3 server coul...

CVE-2005-0080

CVE-2005-0080 affects Mailman 2.1.5 via the 55_options_traceback.dpatch patch used in Ubuntu 4.10. The patch causes the error message to differ based on whether an email address is subscribed to a private list, enabling remote attackers to determine list membership for a given address. The availa...

USN-62-1: imagemagick vulnerability

Andrei Nigmatulin discovered a potential buffer overflow in the PhotoShop Document image decoding function of ImageMagick. Decoding a malicious PSD image which specifies more than the allowed 24 channels might result in execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Since ImageMagick can...

USN-61-1: vim vulnerabilities

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that the auxillary scripts "tcltags" and "vimspell.sh" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the script either by calling it...

USN-60-0: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAN-2005-0001: Paul Starzetz discovered a race condition in the Linux page fault handler code. This allowed an unprivileged user to gain root privileges on multiprocessor machines under some circumstances. This also affects the Hyper-Threading mode on Pentium 4 processors...

USN-59-1: mailman vulnerabilities

Florian Weimer discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in mailman's automatically generated error messages. An attacker could craft an URL containing JavaScript or other content embedded into HTML which triggered a mailman error page. When an unsuspecting user followed this URL, the...

USN-57-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Paul Starzetz discovered a race condition in the ELF library and a.out binary format loaders, which can be locally exploited in several different ways to gain root privileges. CAN-2004-1235 Liang Bin found a design flaw in the capability module. After this module was loaded on demand in a running...

USN-56-1: exim4 vulnerabilities

A flaw has been found in the hostaton function, which can overflow a buffer if it is presented with an illegal IPv6 address that has more than 8 components. When supplying certain command line parameters, the input was not checked, so that a local attacker could possibly exploit the buffer overfl...

USN-54-1: TIFF library tool vulnerability

Dmitry V. Levin discovered a buffer overflow in the "tiffdump" utility. If an attacker tricked a user into processing a malicious TIFF image with tiffdump, they could cause a buffer overflow which at least causes the program to crash. However, it is not entirely clear whether this can be exploite...

USN-53-1: imlib vulnerabilities

Pavel Kankovsky discovered several buffer overflows in imlib. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious image, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user opening the image...

USN-52-1: vim vulnerability

Ciaran McCreesh found several vulnerabilities related to the use of options in Vim modeline commands, such as 'termcap', 'printdevice', 'titleold', 'filetype', 'syntax', 'backupext', 'keymap', 'patchmode', and 'langmenu'. If an attacker tricked an user to open a file with a specially crafted...

USN-51-1: teTeX auxiliary script vulnerability

Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña noticed that "xdvizilla", an auxiliary script to integrate DVI file viewing in Mozilla-based browsers, created temporary files and directories in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges o...

USN-48-1: xpdf, tetex-bin vulnerabilities

A potential buffer overflow has been found in the xpdf viewer. An insufficient input validation could be exploited by an attacker providing a specially crafted PDF file which, when processed by xpdf, could result in abnormal program termination or the execution of attacker supplied program code...

USN-47-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Georgi Guninski discovered two Denial of Service vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. An integer overflow in the vcresize function caused the memory allocation for the new screen being too short, thus causing a buffer overflow and a kernel crash. There was also a memory leak in the ipoptionsget...

USN-46-1: TIFF library vulnerability

A buffer overflow was discovered in the TIFF library. A TIFF file includes a value indicating the number of "directory entry" header fields contained in the file. If this value is -1, an invalid memory allocation was performed. A malicious image could be constructed which, when decoded, would hav...

USN-45-1: nasm vulnerability

Jonathan Rockway discovered a locally exploitable buffer overflow in the error function of nasm. If an attacker tricked a user into assembling a malicious source file, they could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that runs nasm...