XnView: Stack-based buffer overflow

Background XnView is software to view and convert graphics files. XPixMap XPM is a simple ascii-based graphics format. Description XnView is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow while processing an XPM file with an overly long section string greater than 1024 bytes. Impact An attacker coul...

OpenPBS: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background OpenPBS is the original version of the Portable Batch System. It is a flexible batch queueing system developed for NASA in the early to mid-1990s. Description SUSE reported vulnerabilities due to unspecified errors in OpenPBS. Impact By unspecified attack vectors an attacker might be...

WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background WordPress is a popular personal publishing platform with a web interface. Description WordPress contains cross-site scripting or cross-site scripting forgery vulnerabilities reported by: g30rg3x in the "year" parameter of the wptitle function Alexander Concha in the "demo" parameter of...

McAfee VirusScan: Insecure DT_RPATH

Background McAfee VirusScan for Linux is a commercial antivirus solution for Linux. Description Jakub Moc of Gentoo Linux discovered that McAfee VirusScan was distributed with an insecure DTRPATH which included the current working directory, rather than $ORIGIN which was probably intended. Impact...

TORQUE: Insecure temporary file creation

Background TORQUE is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. Description TORQUE creates temporary files with predictable names. Please note that the TORQUE package shipped in Gentoo Portage is not vulnerable in the default configuration. Only systems wi...

NetHack, Slash'EM, Falcon's Eye: Local privilege escalation

Background NetHack is the classic single player dungeon exploration game. Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are NetHack variants. Description NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye have been found to be incompatible with the system used for managing games on Gentoo Linux. As a result, they cannot be played...

CVE-2005-4443

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Gauche before 0.8.6-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH...

CVE-2005-4443

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Gauche before 0.8.6-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH...

CVE-2005-4442

Untrusted search path vulnerability in OpenLDAP before 2.2.28-r3 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH...

GLSA-200512-07 : OpenLDAP, Gauche: RUNPATH issues

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200512-07 OpenLDAP, Gauche: RUNPATH issues Gentoo packaging for OpenLDAP and Gauche may introduce insecure paths into the list of directories that are searched for libraries at runtime. Impact : A local attacker, who is a member o...

CVE-2005-4279

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Qt-UnixODBC before 3.3.4-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH...

CVE-2005-4278

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH...

CVE-2005-4278

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Perl before 5.8.7-r1 on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the portage group to gain privileges via a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is part of the RUNPATH...

OpenLDAP, Gauche: RUNPATH issues

Background OpenLDAP is a suite of LDAP-related application and development tools. Gauche is an R5RS Scheme interpreter. Description Gentoo packaging for OpenLDAP and Gauche may introduce insecure paths into the list of directories that are searched for libraries at runtime. Impact A local attacke...

CVE-2005-3580

QDBM before 1.8.33-r2 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime...

CVE-2005-3581

GDAL before 1.3.0-r1 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime...

CVE-2005-3582

ImageMagick before 6.2.4.2-r1 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime...

CVE-2005-3581

CVE-2005-3581 concerns GDAL prior to 1.3.0-r1 where a local user in the portage group could escalate privileges by placing a malicious shared object in the Portage temporary build directory that gets loaded at runtime via PATH/RUNPATH. The connected sources confirm the vulnerability exists in GDA...

CVE-2005-3580

QDBM before 1.8.33-r2 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime...

CVE-2005-3582

ImageMagick before 6.2.4.2-r1 allows local users in the portage group to increase privileges via a shared object in the Portage temporary build directory, which is added to the search path allowing objects in it to be loaded at runtime...