RHEL 3 : sox (RHSA-2004:409)

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. SoX Sound eXchange is a sound file format converter. SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects. Buffer...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: sox security update

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. SoX Sound eXchange is a sound file format converter. SoX can convert between many different digitized sound formats and perform simple sound manipulation functions, including sound effects. Buffer...

Fedora Core 1 : sox-12.17.4-4.fc1 (2004-235)

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. Buffer overflows existed in the parsing of WAV file header fields. It was possible that a malicious WAV file could have caused arbitrary code to be executed when the file was played or converted. Note...

Fedora Core 2 : sox-12.17.4-4.fc2 (2004-244)

Updated sox packages that fix buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code are now available. Buffer overflows existed in the parsing of WAV file header fields. It was possible that a malicious WAV file could have caused arbitrary code to be executed when the file was played or converted. Note...

SoX buffer overflows when handling .WAV files

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a pair of buffer overflows in the WAV file handling code of SoX. If an attacker can cause her victim to process a specially-crafted WAV file with SoX e.g. through social engineering or through some other program that relies on SoX, arbitrary code can be executed with the...

[ GLSA 200407-07 ] Shorewall : Insecure temp file handling

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FreeBSD : Midnight Commander buffer overflows, format string bugs, and insecure temporary file handling (106)

The following package needs to be updated: mc %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated by freebsdpkg0c6f3fde9c5111d893660020ed76ef5a.nasl. Disabled on 2011/10/02. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright 2003-2006...

RHEL 2.1 : semi (RHSA-2003:231)

Updated semi packages that fix vulnerabilities in semi's temporary file handling are now available. semi is a MIME library for GNU Emacs and XEmacs used by the wl mail package. A vulnerability in semi version 1.14.3 and earlier allows an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files with potentially...

Esearch: Insecure temp file handling

Background Esearch is a replacement for the Portage command "emerge search". It uses an index to speed up searching of the Portage tree. Description The eupdatedb utility uses a temporary file /tmp/esearchdb.py.tmp to indicate that the eupdatedb process is running. When run, eupdatedb checks to s...

Midnight Commander buffer overflows, format string bugs, and insecure temporary file handling

Jakub Jelinek reports several security related bugs in Midnight Commander, including: Multiple buffer overflows CVE-2004-0226 Insecure temporary file handling CVE-2004-0231 Format string bug CVE-2004-0232...

[OpenPKG-SA-2004.006] OpenPKG Security Advisory (uudeview)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org [email protected] [email protected] OpenPKG-SA-2004.006 12-Mar-2004 Package: uudeview Vulnerability: insecure temp file handling,...

CVE-2003-0924

netpbm 9.25 and earlier does not properly create temporary files, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files...

GNU libtool insecure temporary file handling

libtool attempts to create a temporary directory in which to write scratch files needed during processing. A malicious user may create a symlink and then manipulate the directory so as to write to files to which she normally has no permissions. This has been reported as a symlink vulnerability'',...

KDE Personal Information Management suite "kdepim" contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in VCF information reader

Overview KDE Personal Information Management suite "kdepim" contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to the arbitrary execution of commands. Description KDE Personal Information Management suite shipped with KDE versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.4 contains ...

kdepim security update

New kdepim packages are available for Slackware 9.0 and 9.1 to fix a security issue with .VCF file handling. For Slackware -current, a complete upgrade to kde-3.1.5 is available. Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: Wed Jan 14 11:58:58 PST 2004...

CVE-2003-1356

The "file handling" in sort in HP-UX 10.01 through 10.20, and 11.00 through 11.11 is "incorrect," which allows attackers to gain access or cause a denial of service via unknown vectors...

cdwrite 1.3 insecure tmp file handling vulnerability.

Application: cdwrite 1.3 Versions: 1.3 Vendor: Cezary M. Kruk & H. P. de Vries Impact: Could allow attacker to overwrite/manipulate files as the user running cdwrite. Vendor status: Vendor contacted, no reply yet. Date: 06/12/03 Introduction "Cdwrite is the shell for creation of data and audio...

XBoard < 4.2.7: pxboard insecure tmp file handling

About XBoard: XBoard is a graphical chessboard that can serve as a user interface to chess engines such as GNU Chess, the Internet Chess Servers, electronic mail correspondence chess, or your own collection of saved games. pxboard is a script that saves its standard input to a temporary file and...

GEdit 2.02.2 - Large IOStream File Memory Corruption

GEdit 2.02.2 - Large IOStream File Memory Corruption // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9090/info A problem has been reported in the handling of certain file types by gEdit. Memory corruption may occur when handling files containing long strings. Because of this, it may be possible to...

GEdit 2.0/2.2 - Large IOStream File Memory Corruption

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9090/info A problem has been reported in the handling of certain file types by gEdit. Memory corruption may occur when handling files containing long strings. Because of this, it may be possible to cause memory corruption. / simple buffer overflow...