Adobe Reader Javascript API getAnnots method vulnerability

Added: 05/29/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-1492 BID: 34736 OSVDB: 54130 Background Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents. Problem A vulnerability in the Javascript API allows command execution when a user opens a PDF file which calls the getAnnots method with specially crafted arguments...

Adobe Reader Javascript API getAnnots method vulnerability

Added: 05/29/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-1492 BID: 34736 OSVDB: 54130 Background Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents. Problem A vulnerability in the Javascript API allows command execution when a user opens a PDF file which calls the getAnnots method with specially crafted arguments...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1803-1] New nsd packages fix denial of service

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1803-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst May 20, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

ntp -- stack-based buffer overflow

US-CERT reports: ntpd contains a stack buffer overflow which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or create a denial of service...

Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...

Beware of Swine Flu phishing, e-mail scams

Security researchers are starting to sound the alarm avertlabs.com for e-mail scams related to news stories on the Swine Flu. According to a notice from US-CERT, the attacks arrive via an unsolicited email message typically containing a subject line related to the Swine Flu. These email messages...

Dranzer: Fuzzing for ActiveX vulnerabilities

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team US-CERT has released a new ActiveX fuzzer to help developers pinpoint browser-based security vulnerabilities. The tool, called Dranzer, lets software developers test ActiveX controls for vulnerabilities before the software is released to the...

Blackberry plugs code execution holes

From The H Security Research In Motion have published an advisory blackberry.com to warn of another vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment service. This new vulnerability is in addition to previous issues with the PDF distiller service. According to US-CERT, the issue is...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0429

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0429. The Common UNIX® Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems. Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the CUPS JBIG2 decoder. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0431

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0431. The kdegraphics packages contain applications for the K Desktop Environment, including KPDF, a viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in KPDF's JBIG2 decoder. An attacker...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0431

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0431. The kdegraphics packages contain applications for the K Desktop Environment, including KPDF, a viewer for Portable Document Format PDF files. Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in KPDF SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009...

RHEL 4 / 5 : kdegraphics (RHSA-2009:0431)

Updated kdegraphics packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kdegraphics packages contain applications for the K Desktop Environment,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kdegraphics security update

Updated kdegraphics packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kdegraphics packages contain applications for the K Desktop Environment,...

cups security update

1:1.3.7-8:.4 - Applied additional patches by Tim Waugh for batch3892.pdf, batch4781.pdf, batch5486.pdf, batch19856.pdf, batch19869.pdf testing files from CERT bug 491864. - Resolves: rhbz492386. 1:1.3.7-8:.3 - Applied patches to fix CVE-2009-0163 bug 490596, CVE-2009-0146 bug 490612, CVE-2009-014...

cyrus-sasl -- buffer overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The saslencode64 function converts a string into base64. The Cyrus SASL library contains buffer overflows that occur because of unsafe use of the saslencode64 function...

Flash drive/CD autoplay command execution

Added: 04/07/2009 Background This tool allows you to create a USB flash drive which, when inserted into a Windows computer, prompts a user to run a program which creates a command connection. The program is disguised as the "Open Folder" option in the AutoPlay dialog to entice the user to run it...

SAP AG SAPgui EAI WebViewer3D Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Siemens Unigraphics Solutions Teamcenter Visualization EAI WebViewer3D ActiveX control that is bundled with SAPgui. When passing an overly long string the SaveViewToSessionFile method, arbitrary code may be executed. This module requires Metasploit:...

Still no fix for TCP DoS weakness

Software vendors and security officials in several countries have been working for nearly six months on a fix for a serious flaw in a number of TCP implementations that caused a lot of controversy and speculation last fall. The problem could allow attackers to consume all of the resources on a...

Multiple vulnerabilities found, fixed in OpenSSL

The OpenSSL Project has released new versions of its popular implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer SSL and Transport Layer Security TLS protocols to fix multiple security vulnerabilities. According to an advisory openssl.org, the update fixes three security flaws that carry “moderate severit...

PHPizabi v0.848b C1 HFP1-3 Remote Command Execution Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/php ?php / Found this after getting my inet back and noticing this http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6085 . The only problem with the remote command execution there is that it actually requires registerglobals = on. I saw the GLOBAL keyword, and actually...