Scientific Linux Security Update : ruby on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130108)

It was found that certain methods did not sanitize file names before passing them to lower layer routines in Ruby. If a Ruby application created files with names based on untrusted input, it could result in the creation of files with different names than expected. CVE-2012-4522 It was found that...

Mandriva Update for samba MDKSA-2007:034 (samba)

Check for the Version of samba OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for samba MDKSA-2007:034 samba Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Fedora Core 3 : texinfo-4.8-2.2 (2005-990)

This package fixes a temporary file name vulnerability in the texindex program CVE-2005-3011. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

CVE-2004-0659

Buffer overflow in TranslateFilename for common.c in MPlayer 1.0pre4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file name...

CVE-2004-0377

Buffer overflow in the win32stat function for 1 ActiveState's ActivePerl and 2 Larry Wall's Perl before 5.8.3 allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via filenames that end in a backslash character...

Key Focus KF Web Server 1.0.8 - Directory Traversal

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6180/info KeyFocus KF Web Server is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack. This is due to the web server's inability to properly handle file names containing consecutive dot characters. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker is able to break o...