kon2 Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7790/info A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported for the kon2 utility shipped with various Linux distributions. Exploitation of this vulnerability may result in a local attacker obtaining elevated privileges on...

gpm 1.18.1/1.19,Debian 2.x,RedHat 6.x,S.u.S.E 5.3/6.x gpm Setgid Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1069/info A vulnerability exists in the gpm-root program, part of the gpm package. This package is used to enable mice on the consoles of many popular Linux distributions. The problem is a design error, caused when a...

BSD mailx 8.1.1 -10 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1305/info Some Linux distributions ship with BSD mailx 8.1.1-10 On Slackware 7.x it can be found as /usr/bin/Mail. A vulnerability exists in the 'mail' program, part of the Berkeley mailx package. The 'mail' program...

Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,RedHat 6.x,S.u.S.E 6.x/7.0,Trustix 1.x rpc.statd Remote Format String (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1480/info A vulnerability exists in the 'rpc.statd' program, which is part of the 'nfs-utils' package that is shipped with a number of popular Linux distributions. Because of a format-string vulnerability when calling the...

Conectiva 4.x/5.x,Debian 2.x,RedHat 6.x,S.u.S.E 6.x/7.0,Trustix 1.x rpc.statd Remote Format String (3)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1480/info A vulnerability exists in the 'rpc.statd' program, which is part of the 'nfs-utils' package that is shipped with a number of popular Linux distributions. Because of a format-string vulnerability when calling the...

Sam Lantinga splitvt 1.6.3 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1346/info A buffer overflow condition that could be exploited to obtain root exists in splitvt 1.6.3 and earlier. Splitvt is distributed with several Linux distributions. / Local exploit for Debian splitvt 1.6.3-4 - by...

Debian 2.1/2.2,Mandrake 6.0/6.1/7.0,RedHat 6.x rpc.lockd Remote Denial of Service

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1372/info A denial of service attack exists in the NFS lock daemon supplied with Linux. By connecting to the port rpc.lockd is running on, and supplying random input, it will cause lockd to exit with an error. The socket...

[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...

GnuTLS Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Bug

GnuTLS, an open source cryptographic library, was a headliner in March because of a critical certificate verification vulnerability that some erroneously put in the same class as Apple’s infamous gotofail bug. The library, used in a number of Linux distributions including Red Hat, Debian and...

Kloxo 6.1.18 Stable - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Exploit Title :Kloxo 6.1.18 Stable CSRF Vulnerability Vendor Homepage :http://lxcenter.org/software/kloxo Version :6.1.18 Exploit Author :Necmettin COSKUN =@babayarisi Blog :http://www.ncoskun.com http://www.grisapka.org Discovery date :03/12/2014 CVE :N/A Kloxo formerly known as Lxadmin is a fre...

GnuTLS Releases Security Update

GnuTLS has released security updates to address a vulnerability affecting certificate verification functions. An attacker could use a specially crafted X509 certificate to bypass validation checks, impersonate legitimate web sites or services, and perform man-in-the-middle attacks. Many Linux...

Design/Logic Flaw

CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface...

CVE-2012-5519

CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : man (MDKSA-2000:015)

Internet Security Systems ISS X-Force has identified a vulnerability in the makewhatis Bourne shell script that ships with many Linux distributions. It is found in versions 1.5e and higher of man, and handles temporary files insecurely. Local users may gain a variety of privileges depending on th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : inn (MDKSA-2001:010)

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the inn program. This condition is due partly to the way inn is compiled and configured on some Linux distributions, including Linux-Mandrake, and partly due to the lack of information in the inn package detailing potential security...

Trivial Password Flaw Leaves MySQL Databases Exposed

There is a trivially exploitable vulnerability in MySQL that enables an attacker to gain root access to the database server. The bug, which recently was patched, stems from an error in the way that MySQL and MariaDB handle passwords, giving an attacker a chance of getting root access by supplying...

Critical Flaw Found In WICD Component in Some Versions of Linux

UPDATE: A critical security flaw has been identified in a component of the latest version of Backtrack, a popular version of Linux that is used by security professionals for penetration testing. The flaw is in WICD, an open source utility that can be used to manage networks in Linux operating...

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux

New Approach to automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in Linux Australian researcher Silvio Cesare, PhD student at Deakin University has released a tool capable of automatically detecting bugs and vulnerabilities in embedded Linux libraries. Developers may "embed" or "clone" code from...

Apache Patch released for Reverse proxy Bypass Vulnerability

Apache Patch released for Reverse proxy Bypass Vulnerability Security experts at Context have discovered a hole in the Apache web server that allows remote attackers to access internal servers. Security experts are warning firms running the Apache web server to keep up to date with the latest...

Preemptive Protection against ProFTPD FTP Server TELNET_AIC Stack Buffer Overflow

A buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in ProFTPD FTP Server, a full featured File Transfer Protocol FTP server mainly used in Linux distributions. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. Remote attackers could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted FTP...