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USN-163-1: xpdf vulnerability
xpdf and kpdf did not sufficiently verify the validity of the "loca" table in PDF files, a table that contains glyph description information for embedded TrueType fonts. After detecting the broken table, xpdf attempted to reconstruct the information in it, which caused the generation of a huge...
USN-162-1: ekg and Gadu library vulnerabilities
Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered that some contributed scripts contrib/ekgh, contrib/ekgnv.sh, and contrib/getekg.sh in the ekg package created temporary files in an insecure way, which allowed exploitation of a race condition to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the...
USN-157-1: Mozilla Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Vladimir V. Perepelitsa discovered a bug in Thunderbird's handling of anonymous functions during regular expression string replacement. A malicious HTML email could exploit this to capture a random block of client memory. CAN-2005-0989 Georgi Guninski discovered that the types of certain XPInstal...
USN-153-1: fetchmail vulnerability
Ross Boylan discovered a remote buffer overflow in fetchmail. By sending invalid responses with very long UIDs, a faulty or malicious POP server could crash fetchmail or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking fetchmail. fetchmail is commonly run as root to fetch mail for...
USN-149-2: Fixed Firefox packages for USN-149-1
USN-149-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser. Unfortunately that update introduced a lot of regressions, especially when using extensions, so another update is necessary. The new packages ship Firefox version 1.0.6 which should now work well with most extensions one known...
USN-152-1: PAM/NSS LDAP vulnerabilitiy
Andrea Barisani discovered a flaw in the SSL handling of pam-ldap and libnss-ldap. When a client connected to a consumer LDAP server using SSL, the consumer server did not use SSL as well when contacting the LDAP provider server. This caused passwords and other confident information to be...
USN-142-1: sudo vulnerability
Charles Morris discovered a race condition in sudo which could lead to privilege escalation. If /etc/sudoers allowed a user the execution of selected programs, and this was followed by another line containing the pseudo-command "ALL", that user could execute arbitrary commands with sudo by creati...
USN-136-2: Fixed packages for USN-136-1
It was discovered that the packages from USN-136-1 had a flawed patch with regressions that caused the ld linker to fail. The updated packages fix this. We apologize for the inconvenience...
USN-114-2: Fixed packages for USN-114-1
USN-114-1 fixed a vulnerability in the PCX decoder of kimgio. Unfortunately it was discovered that the original patches were faulty and caused regressions. This update now has the correct patches. This update also fixes the disappearing KDE settings which were caused by the accidential removal of...
USN-134-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
It was discovered that a malicious website could inject arbitrary scripts into a target site by loading it into a frame and navigating back to a previous Javascript URL that contained an eval call. This could be used to steal cookies or other confidential data from the target site. If the target...
USN-130-1: TIFF library vulnerability
Tavis Ormandy discovered a buffer overflow in the TIFF library. A malicious image with an invalid "bits per sample" number could be constructed which, when decoded, would have resulted in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process using the library. Since this library is used ...
USN-123-1: Xine library vulnerabilities
Two buffer overflows have been discovered in the MMS and Real RTSP stream handlers of the Xine library. By tricking a user to connect to a malicious MMS or RTSP video/audio stream source with an application that uses this library, an attacker could crash the client and possibly even execute...
USN-117-1: cvs vulnerability
Alen Zukich discovered a buffer overflow in the processing of version and author information in the CVS client. By tricking an user to connect to a malicious CVS server, an attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the connecting user...
USN-114-1: kimgio vulnerability
Bruno Rohee discovered a buffer overflow in the PCX decoder of kimgio. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious PCX image with a KDE application, he could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user opening the image...
