Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: postgresql security update

Updated postresql packages that correct various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. A flaw in the LOAD command in PostgreSQL was discovered. A local user could use...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-postgresql security update

Updated PostgreSQL packages to fix various security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBMS. A flaw in the LOAD command in PostgreSQL was discovered. A local user could use this flaw to load arbitrary shar...

Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features. Description Squid contains several...

CVE-2005-0132: newsfetch NNTP responses buffer overflow

Affected software: newsfetch (FreeBSD ports). Vulnerability: buffer overflow in handling NNTP server responses due to using sscanf without proper bounds checking, enabling overflow on long LIST responses. Impact (as stated): crash or potential arbitrary code execution on the system. Exploitation ...

CVE-2005-0065

The original design of TCP does not check that the TCP sequence number in an ICMP error message is within the range of sequence numbers for data that has been sent but not acknowledged aka "TCP sequence number checking", which makes it easier for attackers to forge ICMP error messages for specifi...

newsfetch -- server response buffer overflow vulnerability

The newsfetch program uses the sscanf function to read information from server responses into static memory buffers. Unfortunately this is done without any proper bounds checking. As a result long server responses may cause an overflow when a newsgroup listing is requested from an NNTP server...

SB2005002: pron to bypass APF checking uid(0) routine

===================================================== SB2005002: pron to bypass APF checking uid0 routine ----------------------------------------------------- Date : 01-13-2005 Author : [email protected]/jyj9782 ----- Affected Version ----- apf-0.9.4-7 current at this time ----- Summary ----...

xpdf -- makeFileKey2() buffer overflow vulnerability

An iDEFENSE Security Advisory reports: Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the xpdf PDF viewer included in multiple Unix and Linux distributions could allow for arbitrary code execution as the user viewing a PDF file. The vulnerability specifically exists due to insufficient...

Microsoft Internet Explorer directory traversal

.. in filename is not checked...

CVE-2004-2661

Soft3304 04WebServer before 1.41 does not properly check file names, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information CGI source code...

iDEFENSE Security Advisory 12.16.04: MPlayer Bitmap Parsing Remote Heap Overflow Vulnerability

MPlayer Bitmap Parsing Remote Heap Overflow Vulnerability iDEFENSE Security Advisory 12.16.04 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=168 December 16, 2004 I. BACKGROUND MPlayer is a movie player for Linux that also runs on many other Unices, and non- x86 CPUs. It plays most MPEG, VOB,...

RTF2LATEX2E 1.0 - Remote Stack Buffer Overflow

RTF2LATEX2E 1.0 - Remote Stack Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11994/info It is reported that rtf2latex2e is susceptible to a stack buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied image data prior to...

CSV2XML 0.5.1 - Remote Buffer Overflow

CSV2XML 0.5.1 - Remote Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12027/info It is reported that csv2xml is susceptible to a buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied data prior to copying it into a...

ABC2MTEX 1.6.1 - Process ABC Key Field Buffer Overflow

ABC2MTEX 1.6.1 - Process ABC Key Field Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12018/info abc2mtex is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is exposed when the program is used to convert ABC music notation files to MTEX format. In particular, the issue is due to...

ABC2MIDI 2004-12-04 - Multiple Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12019/info It is reported that abc2midi is susceptible to two stack buffer overflow vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied image data prior to copying it into fixed-size memory buffers...

jabberd -- remote buffer overflow vulnerability

Caused by improper bounds-checking of username and password in the C2S module, it is possible for an attacker to cause a remote buffer overflow. The server directly handles the userinput with SQL backend functions - malicious input may lead to buffer overflow...

Raven Software Soldier Of Fortune 2 - Remote Buffer Overflow

Raven Software Soldier Of Fortune 2 - Remote Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11735/info It is reported that Soldier of Fortune 2 is susceptible to a buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to perform sufficient bounds checking on...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 8 package cyrus-imapd version 2.2.9-alt1

Nov. 23, 2004 Alexei Takaseev 2.2.9-alt1 - 2.2.9 - This release implements several bugfixes, notably one where lmtpproxyd could reuse a freed connection, another involving a pre-authentication buffer overrun in "imap magic plus" support CAN-2004-1011 and lack of bounds checking in PARTIAL and...

smbd -- buffer-overrun vulnerability

Caused by improper bounds checking of certain trans2 requests, there is a possible buffer overrun in smbd. The attacker needs to be able to create files with very specific Unicode filenames on the share to take advantage of this issue...

Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients. Description Samba fails to do proper bounds checking when handling TRANSACT2QFILEPATHINFO replies. Additionally an input validation flaw exis...