Debian DSA-424-1 : mc - buffer overflow

A vulnerability was discovered in Midnight Commander, a file manager, whereby a malicious archive such as a .tar file could cause arbitrary code to be executed if opened by Midnight Commander. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-309-1 : eterm - buffer overflow

'bazarr' discovered that eterm is vulnerable to a buffer overflow of the ETERMPATH environment variable. This bug can be exploited to gain the privileges of the group 'utmp' on a system where eterm is installed. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-305-1 : sendmail - insecure temporary files

Paul Szabo discovered bugs in three scripts included in the sendmail package where temporary files were created insecurely expn, checksendmail and doublebounce.pl. These bugs could allow an attacker to gain the privileges of a user invoking the script including root. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Debian DSA-118-1 : xsane - insecure temporary files

Tim Waugh found several insecure uses of temporary files in the xsane program, which is used for scanning. This was fixed for Debian/stable by moving those files into a securely created directory within the /tmp directory. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

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-444-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - missing function return value check

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-107-1 : jgroff - format print vulnerability

Basically, this is the same Security Advisory as DSA 072-1, but for jgroff instead of groff. The package jgroff contains a version derived from groff that has Japanese character sets enabled. This package is available only in the stable release of Debian, patches for Japanese support have been...

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-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-258-1 : ethereal - format string vulnerability

Georgi Guninski discovered a problem in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. The program contains a format string vulnerability that could probably lead to execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

Debian DSA-354-1 : xconq - buffer overflows

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in xconq, in processing the USER environment variable. In the process of fixing this bug, a similar problem was discovered with the DISPLAY environment variable. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid 'games'. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-400-1 : omega-rpg - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in the commandline and environment variable handling of omega-rpg, a text-based rogue-style game of dungeon exploration, which could lead a local attacker to gain unauthorised access to the group games. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. T...

Debian DSA-025-2 : openssh - Missing PAM support

A former security upload of OpenSSH lacked support for PAM which lead to people not being able to log onto their server. This wasonly a problem on the sparc architecture. We recommend you upgrade your ssh packages on sparc. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-219-1 : dhcpcd - remote command execution

Simon Kelly discovered a vulnerability in dhcpcd, an RFC2131 and RFC1541 compliant DHCP client daemon, that runs with root privileges on client machines. A malicious administrator of the regular or an untrusted DHCP server may execute any command with root privileges on the DHCP client machine by...

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-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-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-353-1 : sup - insecure temporary file

sup, a package used to maintain collections of files in identical versions across machines, fails to take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running sup...

Debian DSA-117-1 : cvs - improper variable initialization

Kim Nielsen recently found an internal problem with the CVS server and reported it to the vuln-dev mailing list. The problem is triggered by an improperly initialized global variable. A user exploiting this can crash the CVS server, which may be accessed through the pserver service and running...

Debian DSA-451-1 : xboing - buffer overflows

Steve Kemp discovered a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in xboing, a game, which could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid 'games'. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security...