CVE-2010-3557

Unspecified vulnerability in the Swing component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 21, 5.0 Update 25, 1.4.227, and 1.3.128 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the Octobe...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Swing component in Oracle Java SE and Java for Business 6 Update 21, 5.0 Update 25, 1.4.227, and 1.3.128 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the Octobe...

Fedora 13 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 (2010-14640)

This package fixes a security problem CVE-2010-2055 in ghostscript whereby gs uses the current working directory to look for certain types of system file. This has been fixed by changing the default behaviour. Additionally, several other bugs have been fixed: scripts defining GSEXECUTABLE have be...

SuSE 10 Security Update : MySQL (ZYPP Patch Number 6899)

This update fixes various security issues bnc557669 : upstream 47320 - checking server certificates CVE-2009-4028 upstream 48291 - error handling in subqueries CVE-2009-4019 upstream 47780 - preserving nullvalue flag in GeomFromWKB CVE-2009-4019 upstream 39277 - symlink behaviour fixed...

Potential attack vector using attachments

Suspicious handling of attachment uploads with filenames containing quotes the quoted ended up being repeated and semicolons semicolon and all subsequent characters were stripped from filename...

Fedora 13 : DeviceKit-power-0.9.0-2.fc13 / dbus-glib-0.86-4.fc13 (2010-12863)

It was discovered that dbus-glib did not enforce the 'access' flag on exported GObject properties. If such a property were read/write internally but specified as read-only externally, a malicious, local user could use this flaw to modify that property of an application. Such a change could impact...

rssh -- configuration restrictions bypass

Derek Martin rssh maintainer reports: John Barber reported a problem where, if the system administrator misconfigures rssh by providing too few access bits in the configuration file, the user will be given default permissions scp to the entire system, potentially circumventing any configured...

Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 : firefox, firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerability (USN-930-6)

USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browse...

Apple Safari for Windows and Internet Explorer Combined Code Execution (CVE-2008-2540)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. Safari is a web browsing application developed by Apple. A combination of the default download location in Safari and how the Windows desktop handles executables creates a blended threat in which files may be downloaded to a...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2054-2 (bind9)

The remote host is missing an update to bind9 announced via advisory DSA 2054-2. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb20542.nasl 6614 2017-07-07 12:09:12Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2054-2 bind9 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2010 E-Soft Inc...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2054-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for firefox regression USN-930-3

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-930-3 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN9303.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for firefox regression USN-930-3 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Fedora 12 : mod_auth_shadow-2.2-8.fc12 (2010-6359)

Fixes CVE-2010-1151 modauthshadow: bad wait2 call causes randomized authorization behaviour 578168. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as...

Fedora 13 : esorex-3.7.2-6.fc13 (2010-4098)

This update patches the bundled copy of libltdl library which was vulnerable to CVE-2009-3736. This update allows esorex to be built with the new ImplicitDSOLinking behaviour of F-13 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2054-1 (bind9)

The remote host is missing an update to bind9 announced via advisory DSA 2054-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb20541.nasl 6614 2017-07-07 12:09:12Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2054-1 bind9 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2010 E-Soft Inc...

perl security update

4:5.8.8-32.el5.1 - third version of patch fix change of behaviour of rmtree for common user - Resolves: rhbz597203 4:5.8.8-32.el5 - rhbz595416 change documentation of File::Path - Related: rhbz591167 4:5.8.8-31.el5 - remove previous fix - Related: rhbz591167 4:5.8.8-30.el5 - change config to file...

Mathematica on Linux /tmp/MathLink vulnerability

"If you're doing anything technical, think Mathematica --..." http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html Mathematica7 on Linux uses the /tmp/MathLink directory in insecure ways. Mathematica creates or re-uses an existing /tmp/MathLink directory, and overwrites files within and follows...

openSUSE Security Update : libmysqlclient-devel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0198-2)

Updated mysql packages fix the following bugs : - upstream 47320 - checking server certificates CVE-2009-4028 - upstream 48291 - error handling in subqueries CVE-2009-4019 - upstream 47780 - preserving nullvalue flag in GeomFromWKB CVE-2009-4019 - upstream 39277 - symlink behaviour fixed...

Didier Stevens on PDF Hacking and Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Didier Stevens, the security researcher who developed the innovative method for using the /launch command in PDF readers to execute code on remote machines. Stevens discusses the ramifications of the discovery, the security of PDFs in general and the user behavior that...

openSUSE Security Update : libmysqlclient-devel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0198-1)

This update fixes several security issues in mysql : - checking server certificates CVE-2009-4028 - error handling in subqueries CVE-2009-4019 - preserving nullvalue flag in GeomFromWKB CVE-2009-4019 - symlink behavior fixed CVE-2008-7247 - symlink behavior refixed CVE-2009-4030 %NASLMINLEVEL 703...