Debian DSA-1910-1 : mysql-ocaml - missing escape function

It was discovered that mysql-ocaml, OCaml bindings for MySql, was missing a function to call mysqlrealescapestring. This is needed, because mysqlrealescapestring honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The adde...

Debian DSA-1939-1 : libvorbis - several vulnerabilities

Lucas Adamski, Matthew Gregan, David Keeler, and Dan Kaminsky discovered that libvorbis, a library for the Vorbis general-purpose compressed audio codec, did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. An attacker could cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or...

Debian DSA-1858-1 : imagemagick - multiple vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the imagemagick image manipulation programs which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code, exposure of sensitive information or cause DoS. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2007-1667...

Debian DSA-1881-1 : cyrus-imapd-2.2 - buffer overflow

It was discovered that the SIEVE component of cyrus-imapd, a highly scalable enterprise mail system, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing SIEVE scripts. Due to incorrect use of the sizeof operator an attacker is able to pass a negative length to snprintf calls resulting in large...

Debian DSA-1898-1 : openswan - denial of service

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in openswan, an implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisor...

Debian DSA-1947-1 : shibboleth-sp, shibboleth-sp2, opensaml2 - missing input sanitising

Matt Elder discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web single sign-on system is vulnerable to script injection through redirection URLs. More details can be found in the Shibboleth advisory at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv20091104.txt. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

Debian DSA-1961-1 : bind9 - DNS cache poisoning

Michael Sinatra discovered that the DNS resolver component in BIND does not properly check DNS records contained in additional sections of DNS responses, leading to a cache poisoning vulnerability. This vulnerability is only present in resolvers which have been configured with DNSSEC trust anchor...

Debian DSA-1955-1 : network-manager/network-manager-applet - information disclosure

It was discovered that network-manager-applet, a network management framework, lacks some dbus restriction rules, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information. If you have locally modified the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf file, then please make sure that you merge the changes...

Debian DSA-1872-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to denial of service, privilege escalation or a leak of sensitive memory. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2698 Herbert Xu discovered an issue in the way U...

Debian DSA-1897-1 : horde3 - insufficient input sanitization

Stefan Esser discovered that Horde, a web application framework providing classes for dealing with preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME, and more, is insufficiently validating and escaping user provided input. The HordeFormTypeimage form element allows to reuse a...

Debian DSA-1949-1 : php-net-ping - programming error

It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments no CVE yet or execute arbitrary commands CVE-2009-4024 on a system that uses php-net-ping. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-1846-1 : kvm - denial of service

Matt T. Yourst discovered an issue in the kvm subsystem. Local users with permission to manipulate /dev/kvm can cause a denial of service hang by providing an invalid cr3 value to the KVMSETSREGS call. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-1863-1 : zope2.10/zope2.9 - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the zope, a feature-rich web application server written in python, that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the worst case. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identified the following problems : - CVE-2009-0668 Due to a...

Debian DSA-1891-1 : changetrack - shell command execution

Marek Grzybowski discovered that changetrack, a program to monitor changes to configuration files, is prone to shell command injection via metacharacters in filenames. The behaviour of the program has been adjusted to reject all filenames with metacharacters. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-1847-1 : bind9 - improper assert

It was discovered that the BIND DNS server terminates when processing a specially crafted dynamic DNS update. This vulnerability affects all BIND servers which serve at least one DNS zone authoritatively, as a master, even if dynamic updates are not enabled. The default Debian configuration for...

Debian DSA-1987-1 : lighttpd - denial of service

Li Ming discovered that lighttpd, a small and fast webserver with minimal memory footprint, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to bad memory handling. Slowly sending very small chunks of request data causes lighttpd to allocate new buffers for each read instead of appending to old...

Debian DSA-1986-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Moodle, an online course management system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-4297 Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities have been discovered. - CVE-2009-4298 It has be...

Debian DSA-1843-1 : squid3 - several vulnerabilities

It was discovered that squid3, a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, is prone to several denial of service attacks. Due to incorrect bounds checking and insufficient validation while processing response and request data an attacker is able to crash the squid daemon via crafted...

Debian DSA-1844-1 : linux-2.6.24 - denial of service/privilege escalation

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1385 Neil Horman discovered a missing fix from the e1000 network driver. A...

Debian DSA-1906-1 : clamav - End-of-life announcement for clamav in stable and oldstable

Security support for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix, has been discontinued for the stable distribution lenny and the oldstable distribution etch. Clamav Upstream has stopped supporting the releases in etch and lenny. Also, it is not easily possible to receive signature updates for the vir...