Debian DSA-177-1 : pam -- serious security violation

A serious security violation in PAM was discovered. Disabled passwords i.e. those with '' in the password file were classified as empty password and access to such accounts is granted through the regular login procedure getty, telnet, ssh. This works for all such accounts whose shell field in the...

Debian DSA-414-1 : jabber - denial of service

A vulnerability was discovered in jabber, an instant messaging server, whereby a bug in the handling of SSL connections could cause the server process to crash, resulting in a denial of service. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-090-1 : xtel - symlink attack

The xtel an X emulator for minitel package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has two possible symlink attacks : - xteld creates a temporary file /tmp/.xtel- without checking for symlinks. - when printing a hardcopy xtel would create a temporary file without protecting itself against symlin...

Debian DSA-417-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.18-powerpc+alpha - missing boundary check

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel present in version 2.4.x and 2.6.x which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. Version 2.2 is not affected by this bug. Andrew Morton discovered a missing boundary check for the brk system call which ca...

Debian DSA-455-1 : libxml - buffer overflows

libxml2 is a library for manipulating XML files. Yuuichi Teranishi Si Xi Yu ? discovered a flaw in libxml, the GNOME XML library. When fetching a remote resource via FTP or HTTP, the library uses special parsing routines which can overflow a buffer if passed a very long URL. If an attacker is abl...

Debian DSA-376-2 : exim - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow exists in exim, which is the standard mail transport agent in Debian. By supplying a specially crafted HELO or EHLO command, an attacker could cause a constant string to be written past the end of a buffer allocated on the heap. This vulnerability is not believed at this time to...

Debian DSA-429-1 : gnupg - cryptographic weakness

Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing. This update disables the use of this type of key. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

Debian DSA-220-1 : squirrelmail - XSS

A cross site scripting vulnerability has been discovered in squirrelmail, a feature-rich webmail package written in PHP4. Squirrelmail doesn't sanitize user provided variables in all places, leaving it vulnerable to a cross site scripting attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Debian DSA-275-1 : lpr-ppd - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in lpr, a BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system. This problem can be exploited by a local user to gain root privileges, even if the printer system is set up properly. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-110-1 : cups - buffer overflow

The authors of CUPS, the Common UNIX Printing System, have found a potential buffer overflow bug in the code of the CUPS daemon where it reads the names of attributes. This affects all versions of CUPS. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Debian DSA-301-1 : libgtop - buffer overflow

The gtop daemon, used for monitoring remote machines, contains a buffer overflow which could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the daemon process. If started as root, the daemon process drops root privileges, assuming uid and gid 99 by default. This bug was...

Debian DSA-227-1 : openldap2 - buffer overflows and other bugs

The SuSE Security Team reviewed critical parts of openldap2, an implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP version 2 and 3, and found several buffer overflows and other bugs remote attackers could exploit to gain access on systems running vulnerable LDAP servers. In addition...

Debian DSA-104-1 : cipe - DoS attack

Larry McVoy found a bug in the packet handling code for the CIPE VPN package: it did not check if a received packet was too short and could crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Adviso...

Debian DSA-088-1 : fml - improper character escaping

The fml a mailing list package as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from a cross-site scripting problem. When generating index pages for list archives the ' characters were not properly escaped for subjects. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-182-1 : kdegraphics - buffer overflow

Zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow in gv, a PostScript and PDF viewer for X11. The same code is present in kghostview which is part of the KDE-Graphics package. This problem is triggered by scanning the PostScript file and can be exploited by an attacker sending a malformed PostScript or PDF...

Debian DSA-527-1 : pavuk - buffer overflow

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in pavuk, a file retrieval program, whereby an oversized HTTP 305 response sent by a malicious server could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the pavuk process. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

Debian DSA-102-2 : at - daemon exploit

zen-parse found a bug in the current implementation of at which leads into a heap corruption vulnerability which in turn could potentially lead into an exploit of the daemon user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-138-1 : gallery - remote exploit

A problem was found in gallery a web-based photo album toolkit: it was possible to pass in the GALLERYBASEDIR variable remotely. This made it possible to execute commands under the uid of web-server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-418-1 : vbox3 - privilege leak

A bug was discovered in vbox3, a voice response system for isdn4linux, whereby root privileges were not properly relinquished before executing a user-supplied tcl script. By exploiting this vulnerability, a local user could gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-398-1 : conquest - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the environment variable handling of conquest, a curses based, real-time, multi-player space warfare game, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised access to the group conquest. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...