USN-583-1: Evolution vulnerability

Ulf Harnhammar discovered that Evolution did not correctly handle format strings when processing encrypted emails. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted email, resulting in arbitrary code execution...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-584-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-139)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 943-1 (perl)

The remote host is missing an update to perl announced via advisory DSA 943-1. Jack Louis discovered an integer overflow in Perl, Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language, that allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : evolution vulnerability (USN-442-1)

Ulf Harnhammar of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not correctly handle format strings when displaying shared memos. If a remote attacker tricked a user into viewing a specially crafted shared memo, they could execute arbitrary code with user privileges. Note that Tenable Network...

Fedora 7 : vavoom-1.24-3.fc7 (2007-1977)

Security update fixing various format strings vulnerabilities and a DOS vulnerability in the vavoom server, this fixes: CVE-2007-4533, CVE-2007-4534 & CVE-2007-4535. Also see bugzilla bug 256621. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

USN-438-1: Inkscape vulnerability

A flaw was discovered in Inkscape's use of format strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted URI in Inkscape, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges...

Format string

Format string vulnerability in GnomeMeeting 1.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format strings in the name, which is not properly handled in a call to the gnomemeetingloginsert function...

VLC media player: Format string vulnerability

Background VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video formats. Description Kevin Finisterre has discovered that when handling media locations, various functions throughout VLC media player make improper use of format strings. Impact An attacker could entice a user to open...

CVE-2005-4817

Format string vulnerability in ui.c in Textbased MSN Client TMSNC before 0.2.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors that cause format strings to be injected into the wprintw function...

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-6692

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in zabbix before 20061006 allow attackers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in information that would be recorded in the system log using 1 zabbixlog or 2 zabbixsyslog...

Solaris locale Format Strings (noexec stack) Exploit

No description provided by source. / exploit for locale subsystem format strings bug In Solaris with noexec stack. Tested in Solaris 2.6/7.0 If it wont work, try adjust retloc offset. e.g. ./ex -o -4 $gcc -o ex ex.c ldd /usr/bin/passwd|sed -e 's/^.lib\0-9a-zA-Z\.so./-l\1/' usages: ./ex -h Thanks...

wu-ftpd 2.6.0 Remote Format Strings Exploit

No description provided by source. / 12:40 11/10/00: Tool for either attack or defense within an information warfare setting. Rather, it is a small program demonstrating proof of concept. Default values for solaris 2.8 and inetd. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for...

Linux eXtremail 1.5.x Remote Format Strings Exploit

No description provided by source. // / Linux eXtremail 1.5.x Remote Format Strings Exploit / / / / / / By B-r00t - 02/07/2003 / / / / Versions: Linux eXtremail-1.5-8 = VULNERABLE / / Linux eXtremail-1.5-5 = VULNERABLE / / Exploit uses format strings bug in fLog of smtpd to bind a / / r00tshell t...

BFTPd vsprintf() Format Strings Exploit

No description provided by source. Copyright c 2000 - Security.is The following material may be freely redistributed, provided that the code or the disclaimer have not been partly removed, altered or modified in any way. The material is the property of security.is. You are allowed to adopt the...

Debian DSA-943-1 : perl - integer overflow

Jack Louis discovered an integer overflow in Perl, Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language, that allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted content that is passed to vulnerable format strings of third-party software. The...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xine-ui (MDKSA-2006:085)

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in xiTK xitk/main.c in xine allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a long filename on an EXTINFO line in a playlist file. Packages have been patched to correct this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDKSA-2006:067)

Damian Put discovered an integer overflow in the PE header parser in ClamAV that could be exploited if the ArchiveMaxFileSize option was disabled CVE-2006-1614. Format strings in the logging code could possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code CVE-2006-1615. David Luyer found that ClamAV...

CVE-2006-0559

Format string vulnerability in the SMTP server for McAfee WebShield 4.5 MR2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in the domain name portion of a destination address, which are not properly handled when a bounce message is constructed...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-222-1)

Jack Louis of Dyad Security discovered that Perl did not sufficiently check the explicit length argument in format strings. Specially crafted format strings with overly large length arguments led to a crash of the Perl interpreter or even to execution of arbitrary attacker-defined code with the...