Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

Updated thunderbird packages that fix various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A buffer overflow bug was found in the way Thunderbird processe...

security flaw

String handling functions in Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, such as the nsTSubstringCharT::Replace function, do not properly check the return values of other functions that resize the string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execut...

CVE-2005-0255

CVE-2005-0255 affects Mozilla Suite 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2. The flaw is in string handling (nsTSubstring_CharT::Replace) where return values of functions that resize strings are not properly checked, which can lead to a reallocation failure and a pointer to a fixed addre...

CVE-2004-1527

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 does not properly handle certain character strings in the Path attribute, which can cause it to modify cookies in other domains when the attacker's domain name is within the target's domain name or when wildcard DNS is being used, which allows remote attackers ...

Debian DSA-324-1 : ethereal - several vulnerabilities

Several of the packet dissectors in ethereal contain string handling bugs which could be exploited using a maliciously crafted packet to cause ethereal to consume excessive amounts of memory, crash, or execute arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities were announced in the following Ethereal security...

CVE-2003-0432

Ethereal 0.9.12 and earlier does not handle certain strings properly, with unknown consequences, in the 1 BGP, 2 WTP, 3 DNS, 4 802.11, 5 ISAKMP, 6 WSP, 7 CLNP, 8 ISIS, and 9 RMI dissectors...

Proxomitron Proxy Server - GET Remote Denial of Service

Proxomitron Proxy Server - GET Remote Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7954/info It has been reported that Proxomitron does not properly handle some string types. Because of this, an attacker can cause the server to become unstable and crash. GET /../..0%%../ 4504 chars...

Proxomitron Proxy Server - GET Remote Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7954/info It has been reported that Proxomitron does not properly handle some string types. Because of this, an attacker can cause the server to become unstable and crash. GET /../..0%%../ 4504 chars GET ......\ 4504 chars...

CVE-2001-0825

Buffer overflow in internal string handling routines of xinetd before 2.1.8.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a length argument of zero or less, which disables the length check...

xinetd 2.3.0 audit status

Hi, As some of you may know, I've performed an audit of the xinetd 2.3.0 source code for certain classes of vulnerabilities. The audit has resulted in a significant number of fixes many are for non-security issues. The patch was over 100 KB large and got incorporated into xinetd starting with...

suid scotty / ntping overflow

here is the offending code and the attached letter has the general information for this issue. in /home/d0tslash/scotty-2.1.0/tnm/ntping/ntping.c char hname; / hostname / ... else char tmp 512; struct hostent hp; strcpy tmp, hname; ifdef HAVERES / try to spend no longer than some seconds: /...