git: Multiple vulnerabilties

Background GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system used by the Linux kernel team. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in gitweb that is part of the git package: Shell metacharacters related to gitsearch are not properly sanitized CVE-2008-5516. Shell...

OpenLDAP: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Description Cameron Hotchkies discovered an error within the parsing of ASN.1 BER encoded packets in the "bergetnext" function in libraries/liblber/io.c. Impact A remote unauthenticated...

RHEL 3 : cyrus-sasl (RHSA-2007:0878)

Updated cyrus-sasl packages that correct a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple...

GLSA-200708-10 : MySQL: Denial of Service and information leakage

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200708-10 MySQL: Denial of Service and information leakage Dormando reported a vulnerability within the handling of password packets in the connection protocol CVE-2007-3780. Andrei Elkin also found that the 'CREATE TABLE LIKE'...

GLSA-200707-11 : MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200707-11 MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution kadmind is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the RPC library shipped with MIT Kerberos 5. It fails to properly handle zero-length RPC credentials CVE-2007-2442 and th...

Sun Java JRE vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via an undetermined error

Overview A vulnerability in the Sun Java Runtime Environment may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description The Sun Java Runtime Environment JRE allows users to run Java applications in a browser or as standalone programs. Sun has made the JRE available for...

Microsoft Excel vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via malformed record

Overview A vulnerability in Microsoft Excel may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description A vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Excel handles malformed records.Per Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-002: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in...

GLSA-200701-01 : DenyHosts: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200701-01 DenyHosts: Denial of Service Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered that DenyHosts used an incomplete regular expression to parse failed login attempts. Impact : A remote unauthenticated attacke...

GLSA-200609-17 : OpenSSH: Denial of Service

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200609-17 OpenSSH: Denial of Service Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the SSH protocol version 1 CRC compensation attack detector. Impact : A remote unauthenticated attacker...

Microsoft Excel fails to properly perform range validation when parsing document files

Overview Microsoft Excel contains an error in range validation, which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Excel fails to properly validate ranges in data files. When a file with a malformed range is opened in Excel,...