Debian DSA-974-1 : gpdf - buffer overflows

SuSE researchers discovered heap overflow errors in xpdf, the Portable Document Format PDF suite, which is also present in gpdf, the GNOME version of the Portable Document Format viewer, and which can allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crashing the application or possibly execute...

Debian DSA-968-1 : noweb - insecure temporary file

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a script in noweb, a web like literate-programming tool, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plug...

Debian DSA-954-1 : wine - design flaw

H D Moore has discovered that Wine, a free implementation of the Microsoft Windows APIs, inherits a design flaw from the Windows GDI API, which may lead to the execution of code through GDI escape functions in WMF files. The old stable distribution woody does not seem to be affected by this...

Debian DSA-1168-1 : imagemagick - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Imagemagick, a collection of image manipulation tools, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-2440 Eero Hakkinen discovered that the...

Debian DSA-1046-1 : mozilla - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in Mozilla. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-2353 The 'run-mozilla.sh' script allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files when debugging is enabled via a...

Debian DSA-1077-1 : lynx-ssl - programming error

Michal Zalewski discovered that lynx, the popular text-mode WWW Browser, is not able to grok invalid HTML including a TEXTAREA tag with a large COLS value and a large tag name in an element that is not terminated, and loops forever trying to render the broken HTML. The same code is present in...

Debian DSA-1144-1 : chmlib - missing input sanitising

It was discovered that one of the utilities shipped with chmlib, a library for dealing with Microsoft CHM files, performs insufficient sanitising of filenames, which might lead to directory traversal. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-1047-1 : resmgr - programming error

A problem has been discovered in resmgr, a resource manager library daemon and PAM module, that allows local users to bypass access control rules and open any USB device when access to one device was granted. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-878-1 : netpbm-free - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been identified in the pnmtopng component of the netpbm package, a set of graphics conversion tools. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as a local user by providing a specially crafted PNM file. The old stable distribution woody it not...

Debian DSA-1106-1 : ppp - programming error

Marcus Meissner discovered that the winbind plugin in pppd does not check whether a setuid call has been successful 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...

Debian DSA-945-1 : antiword - insecure temporary file

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that two scripts in antiword, utilities to convert Word files to text and Postscript, create a temporary file in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-1154-1 : squirrelmail - variable overwriting

James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research discovered a vulnerability in SquirrelMail where an authenticated user could overwrite random variables in the compose script. This might be exploited to read or write the preferences or attachment files of other users. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Debian DSA-958-1 : drupal - several vulnerabilities

Several security related problems have been discovered in drupal, a fully-featured content management/discussion engine. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2005-3973 Several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allow remote attackers ...

Debian DSA-1032-1 : zope-cmfplone - programming error

It was discovered that the Plone content management system lacks security declarations for three internal classes. This allows manipulation of user portraits by unprivileged users. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-1024-1 : clamav - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit, which may lead to denial of service and potentially to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2006-1614 Damian Put discovered ...

Debian DSA-1128-1 : heartbeat - permission error

Yan Rong Ge discovered that wrong permissions on a shared memory page in heartbeat, the subsystem for High-Availability Linux could be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-1006-1 : wzdftpd - missing input sanitising

'kcope' discovered that the wzdftpd FTP server lacks input sanitising for the SITE command, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary shell commands. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...

Debian DSA-957-2 : imagemagick - missing shell meta sanitising

Florian Weimer discovered that delegate code in ImageMagick is vulnerable to shell command injection using specially crafted file names. This allows attackers to encode commands inside of graphic commands. With some user interaction, this is exploitable through Gnus and Thunderbird. This update...

Debian DSA-1064-1 : cscope - buffer overflows

Jason Duell discovered that cscope, a source code browsing tool, does not verify the length of file names sourced in include statements, which may potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted source code files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-1145-1 : freeradius - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in freeradius, a high-performance RADIUS server, which may lead to SQL injection or denial of service. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2005-4745 A SQL injection vulnerability has been...