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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...
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-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-459-1 : kdelibs - cookie path traversal
A vulnerability was discovered in KDE where the path restrictions on cookies could be bypassed using encoded relative path components e.g., '/../'. This means that a cookie which should only be sent by the browser to an application running at /app1, the browser could inadvertently include it with...
Debian DSA-406-1 : lftp - buffer overflow
Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in lftp, a set of sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs. An attacker could create a carefully crafted directory on a website so that the execution of an 'ls' or 'rels' command would lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the client...
Debian DSA-160-1 : scrollkeeper - insecure temporary file creation
Spybreak discovered a problem in scrollkeeper, a free electronic cataloging system for documentation. The scrollkeeper-get-cl program creates temporary files in an insecure manner in /tmp using guessable filenames. Since scrollkeeper is called automatically when a user logs into a Gnome session, ...
Debian DSA-440-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-powerpc-apus - several vulnerabilities
Several local root exploits have been discovered recently in the Linux kernel. This security advisory updates the PowerPC/Apus kernel for Debian GNU/Linux. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems that are fixed with this update : - CAN-2003-0961 : An...
Debian DSA-471-1 : interchange - missing input sanitising
A vulnerability was discovered recently in Interchange, an e-commerce and general HTTP database display system. This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to expose the content of arbitrary variables. An attacker may learn SQL access information for your Interchange application and use th...
Debian DSA-348-1 : traceroute-nanog - integer overflow, buffer overflow
traceroute-nanog, an enhanced version of the common traceroute program, contains an integer overflow bug which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. traceroute-nanog is setuid root, but drops root privileges immediately after obtaining raw ICMP and raw IP sockets. Thus, exploitation of th...
Debian DSA-357-1 : wu-ftpd - remote root exploit
iSEC Security Research reports that wu-ftpd contains an off-by-one bug in the fbrealpath function which could be exploited by a logged-in user local or anonymous to gain root privileges. A demonstration exploit is reportedly available. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...
Debian DSA-123-1 : listar - remote exploit
Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski reported a buffer overflow in the addressmatch of listar a listserv style mailing-list manager. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...
Debian DSA-412-1 : nd - buffer overflows
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in nd, a command-line WebDAV interface, whereby long strings received from the remote server could overflow fixed-length buffers. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker in control of a malicious WebDAV server to execute arbitrary code i...
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-282-1 : glibc - integer overflow
eEye Digital Security discovered an integer overflow in the xdrmemgetbytes function which is also present in GNU libc. This function is part of the XDR external data representation encoder/decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. Depending upon the application, this vulnerability can cause...
Debian DSA-378-1 : mah-jong - buffer overflows, denial of service
Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong, a network-enabled game. - CAN-2003-0705 buffer overflow This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mah-jong server. - CAN-2003-0706 denial of service...
gnutls -- certificate chain verification DoS
Patric Hornik reports on a problem in the certificate chain verification procedures of GnuTLS that may result in a denial-of-service vulnerability: The certificate chain should be verified from last root certificate to the first certificate. Otherwise a lot of unauthorized CPU processing can be...
CVE-2004-2131
Stack-based buffer overflow in ontape for IBM Informix Dynamic Server IDS 9.40.xC3 and earlier allows local users, with DSA privileges, to execute arbitrary code via a long ONCONFIG environment variable...
