Debian DSA-1157-1 : ruby1.8 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language, which may lead to the bypass of security restrictions or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-1931 It was discovered that the use of...

Debian DSA-997-1 : bomberclone - buffer overflows

Stefan Cornelius of Gentoo Security discovered that bomberclone, a free Bomberman-like game, crashes when receiving overly long error packets, which may also allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-1090-1 : spamassassin - programming error

A vulnerability has been discovered in SpamAssassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis, that can allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This problem only affects systems where spamd is reachable via the internet and used with vpopmail virtual users, via the '-v' /...

Debian DSA-1150-1 : shadow - programming error

A bug has been discovered in several packages that execute the setuid system call without checking for success when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Debian DSA-1010-1 : ilohamail - missing input sanitising

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered that ilohamail, a lightweight multilingual web-based IMAP/POP3 client, does not always sanitise input provided by users which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-1189-1 : openssh-krb5 - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSH, a free implementation of the Secure Shell protocol, which may lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : -...

Debian DSA-1091-1 : tiff - buffer overflows

Several problems have been discovered in the TIFF library. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues : - CVE-2006-2193 SuSE discovered a buffer overflow in the conversion of TIFF files into PDF documents which could be exploited when tiff2pdf is used e.g. in...

Debian DSA-909-1 : horde3 - missing input sanitising

Daniel Schreckling discovered that the MIME viewer in horde3, a web application suite, does not always sanitise its input leaving a possibility to force the return of malicious code that could be executed on the victims machine. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Debian DSA-999-1 : lurker - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in lurker, an archive tool for mailing lists with integrated search engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-1062 Lurker's mechanism for specifying configuration files was...

Debian DSA-898-1 : phpgroupware - programming errors

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpsysinfo, a PHP based host information application that is included in phpgroupware. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-0870 Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered several cross site scripti...

Debian DSA-1060-1 : kernel-patch-vserver - programming error

Jan Rekorajski discovered that the kernel patch for virtual private servers does not limit context capabilities to the root user within the virtual server, which might lead to privilege escalation for some virtual server specific operations. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Debian DSA-886-1 : chmlib - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chmlib, a library for dealing with CHM format files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-2659 Palasik Sandor discovered a buffer overflow in the LZX decompression method. - CVE-2005-2930 A...

Debian DSA-900-3 : fetchmail - programming error

Due to restrictive dependency definition for fetchmail-ssl the updated fetchmailconf package couldn't be installed on the old stable distribution woody together with fetchmail-ssl. Hence, this update loosens it, so that the update can be pulled in. For completeness we're including the original...

Debian DSA-908-1 : sylpheed-claws - buffer overflows

Colin Leroy discovered several buffer overflows in a number of importer routines in sylpheed-claws, an extended version of the Sylpheed mail client, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-1170-1 : gcc-3.4 - missing sanity check

Jurgen Weigert discovered that upon unpacking JAR archives fastjar from the GNU Compiler Collection does not check the path for included files and allows to create or overwrite files in upper directories. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks...

Debian DSA-870-1 : sudo - missing input sanitising

Tavis Ormandy noticed that sudo, a program that provides limited super user privileges to specific users, does not clean the environment sufficiently. The SHELLOPTS and PS4 variables are dangerous and are still passed through to the program running as privileged user. This can result in the...

Debian DSA-1025-1 : dia - programming error

'infamous41md' discovered three buffer overflow errors in the xfig import code of dia, a diagram editor, that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Securit...

Debian DSA-918-1 : osh - programming error

Several security related problems have been discovered in osh, the operator's shell for executing defined programs in a privileged environment. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-3346 Charles Stevenson discovered a bug in the...

Debian DSA-981-1 : bmv - integer overflow

'felinemalice' discovered an integer overflow in BMV, a post script viewer for SVGAlib, that may lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted Postscript files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-1162-1 : libmusicbrainz-2.0 - buffer overflows

Luigi Auriemma discovered several buffer overflows in libmusicbrainz, a CD index library, that allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...