Debian DSA-860-1 : ruby - programming error

Yutaka Oiwa discovered a bug in Ruby, the interpreter for the object-oriented scripting language, that can cause illegal program code to bypass the safe level and taint flag protections check and be executed. The following matrix lists the fixed versions in our distributions : old stable woody...

Debian DSA-846-1 : cpio - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in cpio, a program to manage archives of files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-1111 Imran Ghory discovered a race condition in setting the file permissions of files extracted from cpio...

Debian DSA-853-1 : ethereal - several vulnerabilities

Several security problems have been discovered in ethereal, a commonly used network traffic analyser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-2360 Memory allocation errors in the LDAP dissector can cause a denial of service. - CAN-2005-2361...

Debian DSA-857-1 : graphviz - insecure temporary file

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered insecure temporary file creation in graphviz, a rich set of graph drawing tools, that can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files by a local attacker. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

[SECURITY] [DSA 855-1] New weex packages fix arbitrary code execution

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 855-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 10th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-840-1 : drupal - missing input sanitising

Stefan Esser of the Hardened-PHP Project reported a serious vulnerability in the third-party XML-RPC library included with some Drupal versions. An attacker could execute arbitrary PHP code on a target site. This update pulls in the latest XML-RPC version from upstream. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-843-1 : arc - insecure temporary file

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ARC archive program under Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-2945 Eric Romang discovered that the ARC archive program under Unix creates a temporary file with insecure permissions...

Debian DSA-823-1 : util-linux - privilege escalation

David Watson discovered a bug in mount as provided by util-linux and other packages such as loop-aes-utils that allows local users to bypass filesystem access restrictions by re-mounting it read-only. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-835-1 : cfengine - insecure temporary files

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered several insecure temporary file uses in cfengine, a tool for configuring and maintaining networked machines, that can be exploited by a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user executing cfengine, which is probably root. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-828-1 : squid - authentication handling

Upstream developers of squid, the popular WWW proxy cache, have discovered that changes in the authentication scheme are not handled properly when given certain request sequences while NTLM authentication is in place, which may cause the daemon to restart. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-833-2 : mysql-dfsg-4.1 - buffer overflow

This update only covers binary packages for the big endian MIPS architecture that was mysteriously forgotten in the earlier update. For completeness below is the original advisory text : A stack-based buffer overflow in the initsyms function of MySQL, a popular database, has been discovered that...

Debian DSA-839-1 : apachetop - insecure temporary file

Eric Romang discovered an insecurely created temporary file in apachetop, a realtime monitoring tool for the Apache webserver that could be exploited with a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files with the user id that runs apachetop. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-824-1 : clamav - infinite loop, buffer overflow

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in Clam AntiVirus, the antivirus scanner for Unix, designed for integration with mail servers to perform attachment scanning. The following problems were identified : - CAN-2005-2919 A potentially infinite loop could lead to a denial of service. -...

Debian DSA-834-1 : prozilla - buffer overflow

Tavis Ormandy discovered a buffer overflow in prozilla, a multi-threaded download accelerator, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...

Debian DSA-831-1 : mysql-dfsg - buffer overflow

A stack-based buffer overflow in the initsyms function of MySQL, a popular database, has been discovered that allows remote authenticated users who can create user-defined functions to execute arbitrary code via a long functionname field. The ability to create user-defined functions is not...

Debian DSA-841-1 : mailutils - format string vulnerability

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in GNU mailutils which contains utilities for handling mail that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the IMAP server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

Debian DSA-821-1 : python2.3 - integer overflow

An integer overflow with a subsequent buffer overflow has been detected in PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, and is also present in Python. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to specify the used regular...

Debian DSA-817-1 : python2.2 - integer overflow

An integer overflow with a subsequent buffer overflow has been detected in PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, and is also present in Python. Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to specify the used regular...

Debian DSA-822-1 : gtkdiskfree - insecure temporary file creation

Eric Romang discovered that gtkdiskfree, a GNOME program that shows free and used space on filesystems, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...

Debian DSA-825-1 : loop-aes-utils - privilege escalation

David Watson discovered a bug in mount as provided by util-linux and other packages such as loop-aes-utils that allows local users to bypass filesystem access restrictions by re-mounting it read-only. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...