MGASA-2017-0066 Updated libevent packages fix security vulnerability

The DNS code of Libevent contains an OOB read which can trigger a crash CVE-2016-10197 The libevent evutilparsesockaddrport contains a buffer overflow which can cause a segmentation fault CVE-2016-10196 The nameparse function in libevent's DNS code is vulnerable to a buffer overread CVE-2016-1019...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3215-1 (libgd2 - security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libgd2, a graphics library: CVE-2014-2497 The gdImageCreateFromXpm function would try to dereference a NULL pointer when reading an XPM file with a special color table. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via crafted XPM...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libarchive (MDVSA-2013:147)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libarchive : Fabian Yamaguchi reported a read buffer overflow flaw in libarchive on 64-bit systems where sizeofsizet is equal to 8. In the archivewritezipdata function in libarchive/ archivewritesetformatzip.c, the 's' parameter is of type sizet 64...

Fedora 17 : libarchive-3.0.4-3.fc17 (2013-4522)

This update fixes CVE-2013-0211 libarchive: read buffer overflow on 64-bit systems 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 without...

Fedora 17 : mingw-libarchive-3.0.4-4.fc17 (2013-4576)

This update fixes CVE-2013-0211 libarchive: read buffer overflow on 64-bit systems. 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 without...

Fedora 18 : mingw-libarchive-3.0.4-4.fc18 (2013-4592)

This update fixes CVE-2013-0211 libarchive: read buffer overflow on 64-bit systems. 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 without...

kernel: nfsd4: bug in read_buf

Multiple buffer overflows in fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c in the XDR implementation in the NFS server in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service panic or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted NFSv4 compound WRITE request, related to the readbuf and...

CVE-2002-1146

The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, use the maximum buffer size instead of the actual size when processing a DNS response, which causes the stub resolvers to read past the actual boundary "read buffer...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2004:009)

A read buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the resolver code in versions of glibc up to and including 2.2.5. The vulnerability is triggered by DNS packets larger than 1024 bytes, which can cause an application to crash. The updated packages have a patch applied to correct the problem...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security update

Updated glibc packages are available to fix a buffer overflow in the resolver. The GNU C library package, glibc, contains standard libraries used by multiple programs on the system. A read buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the glibc resolver code in versions of glibc up to and including...

DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1146

The BIND 4 and BIND 8.2.x stub resolver libraries, and other libraries such as glibc 2.2.5 and earlier, libc, and libresolv, use the maximum buffer size instead of the actual size when processing a DNS response, which causes the stub resolvers to read past the actual boundary "read buffer...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: nss_ldap ecurity update

Updated nssldap packages are now available for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1. These updates fix a potential buffer overflow which can occur when nssldap is set to configure itself using information stored in DNS as well as a format string bug in logging functions used in pamldap. Updated 09 J...