The vulnerability of the LibTIFF library, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the LibTIFF library, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure...

MGASA-2015-0267 Updated pcre package fixes security vulnerability

PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow. During subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset that is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough so that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed CVE-2015-5073...

CVE-2015-2296

The resolveredirects function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks via a cookie without a host value in a redirect...

MGASA-2014-0175 Updated json-c packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated json-c packages fix security vulnerabilities: Florian Weimer reported that the printbuf APIs used in the json-c library used ints for counting buffer lengths, which is inappropriate for 32bit architectures. These functions need to be changed to using sizet if possible for sizes, or to be...

CVE-2010-0015

nis/nssnis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC EGLIBC 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function...

Fedora Update for link-grammar FEDORA-2007-3235

Check for the Version of link-grammar OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for link-grammar FEDORA-2007-3235 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...

Qt: Untrusted library search path

Background Qt is a cross-platform GUI toolkit used by KDE. Description Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that Qt searches for shared libraries in an untrusted, world-writable directory. Impact A local attacker could create a malicious shared object that would be...

Debian DSA-339-1 : semi - insecure temporary file

NOTE: due to a combination of administrative problems, this advisory was erroneously released with the identifier 'DSA-337-1'. DSA-337-1 correctly refers to an earlier advisory regarding gtksee. semi, a MIME library for GNU Emacs, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating...

EUVD-2002-0653

The ASN1 library in OpenSSL 0.9.6d and earlier, and 0.9.7-beta2 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via invalid encodings...