ISC BIND <= 8.2.2,IRIX <= 6.5.17,Solaris 7.0 (NXT Overflow & Denial of Service) Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/788/info There are several vulnerabilities in recent BIND packages pre 8.2.2. The first is a buffer overflow condition which is a result of BIND improperly validating NXT records. The consequence of this being exploited i...

Updated pdns & pdns-recursor packages fix a denial of service vulnerability

Updated pdns and pdns-recursor packages fix security vulnerability: PowerDNS recursor is vulnerable to a denial of service due to a bug that causes it to exhaust the maximum number of file descriptors that are available to a process. The pdns and pdns-recursor packages have been patched to fix th...

MGASA-2014-0270 Updated sendmail packages fix CVE-2014-3956

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability: Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own program for mail delivery e.g., via procmail...

Updated sendmail packages fix CVE-2014-3956

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability: Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own program for mail delivery e.g., via procmail...

openSUSE Security Update : sendmail (openSUSE-SU-2014:0804-1)

sendmail was updated to properly close file descriptors before executing programs. These security issues were fixed : - Not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs CVE-2014-3956. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in th...

[oss-security] CVE request: PowerDNS in default configuration is vulnerable to DoS attack

It was found 1 that in default configuration PowerDNS is allowed to consume more file descriptors than is available for a default installation of many Linux distributions. Default configuration is: 2 threads / 2048 max-mthreads, which leads to a theoretical FD consumption of 4096. Default FD limi...

[slackware-security] sendmail

New sendmail packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/sendmail-8.14.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes one security related bug by properly...

CVE-2014-3956

The smcloseonexec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FDCLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program...

Code injection

The smcloseonexec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FDCLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program...

CVE-2014-3956

The smcloseonexec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FDCLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program...

CVE-2014-3956

The smcloseonexec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FDCLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program...

CVE-2014-3956

The smcloseonexec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FDCLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program...

CVE-2014-3956

The smcloseonexec function in conf.c in sendmail before 8.14.9 has arguments in the wrong order, and consequently skips setting expected FDCLOEXEC flags, which allows local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program...

CVE-2014-3956

CVE-2014-3956 affects sendmail up to version 8.14.9, where the sm_close_on_exec function in conf.c has its arguments in the wrong order, causing FD_CLOEXEC flags not to be set. This can allow local users to access unintended high-numbered file descriptors via a custom mail-delivery program. The c...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: sendmail improper close-on-exec flag handling Category: contrib Module: sendmail Announced: 2014-06-...

sendmail file descriptor leakage

File descriptors are not closed on external applications call...

FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-14:11.sendmail Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: sendmail improper close-on-exec flag handling Category: contrib Module: sendmail Announced:...

Sendmail < 8.14.9 close-on-exec SMTP Connection Manipulation

The remote mail server is running a version of Sendmail prior to 8.14.9. It is, therefore, affected by a flaw related to file descriptors and the 'close-on-exec' flag that may allow a local attacker to cause unspecified impact on open SMTP connections. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

FreeBSD -- sendmail improper close-on-exec flag handling

Problem Description: There is a programming error in sendmail8 that prevented open file descriptors have close-on-exec properly set. Consequently a subprocess will be able to access all open files that the parent process have open. Impact: A local user who can execute their own program for mail...

PT-2014-1706

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions sendmail versions prior to 8.14.9 Description The issue exists in the sm close on exec function due to incorrect argument order and missing expected FD CLOEXEC flags. This allows local users to access high-numbered file descriptors using a...