Ubuntu 4.10 : mailman vulnerabilities (USN-78-1)

An path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the 'private' module of Mailman. A flawed path sanitation algorithm allowed the construction of URLS to arbitrary files readable by Mailman. This allowed a remote attacker to retrieve configuration and password databases, private list archive...

Ubuntu 4.10 : emacs21 vulnerability (USN-76-1)

Max Vozeler discovered a format string vulnerability in the 'movemail' utility of Emacs. By sending specially crafted packets, a malicious POP3 server could cause a buffer overflow, which could have been exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user and the 'mail' group sinc...

Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-95-1)

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the Netfilter IP packet handler. This allowed a remote attacker to crash the machine by sending specially crafted IP packet fragments. CAN-2005-0209 The Netfilter code also contained a memory leak. Certain locally generated packet fragmen...

Ubuntu 4.10 : python2.2, python2.3 vulnerability (USN-73-1)

The Python developers discovered a flaw in the SimpleXMLRPCServer module. Python XML-RPC servers that used the registerinstance method to register an object, but do not have a dispatch method, allowed remote users to access or change function internals using the im and func attributes. Note that...

Ubuntu 4.10 : imagemagick vulnerabilities (USN-35-1)

Markus Meissner discovered several potential buffer overflows in some image decoding functions of ImageMagick. Decoding a malicious BMP or DIB image or AVI video might result in execution of arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Since imagemagick can be used in custom printing systems, this...

Ubuntu 4.10 : gtk+2.0, gdk-pixbuf vulnerabilities (USN-108-1)

Matthias Clasen discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the BMP image module of gdk. Processing a specially crafted BMP image with an application using gdk-pixbuf caused an allocated memory block to be free'ed twice, leading to a crash of the application. However, it is believed that this...

Ubuntu 4.10 : curl vulnerability (USN-86-1)

infamous41md discovered a buffer overflow in cURL's NT LAN Manager NTLM authentication handling. By sending a specially crafted long NTLM reply packet, a remote attacker could overflow the reply buffer. This could lead to execution of arbitrary attacker specified code with the privileges of the...

Ubuntu 4.10 : xine-lib vulnerabilities (USN-42-1)

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in xine-lib, the video/audio codec library for Xine frontends xine-ui, totem-xine, kaffeine, and others. If an attacker tricked a user into loading a malicious RTSP stream or a stream with specially crafted AIFF audio or PNM image data, they could...

Ubuntu 4.10 : php4 vulnerabilities (USN-66-1)

FraMe from kernelpanik.org reported that the cURL module does not respect openbasedir restrictions. As a result, scripts which used cURL to open files with an user-specified path could read arbitrary local files outside of the openbasedir directory. Stefano Di Paola discovered a vulnerability in...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : lynx regression fix (USN-206-2)

USN-206-1 fixed a security vulnerability in lynx. Unfortunately the fix contained an error that caused lynx to crash under certain circumstances. The updated packages fix this. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu 4.10 : ruby1.8 vulnerability (USN-20-1)

The Ruby developers discovered a potential Denial of Service vulnerability in the CGI module cgi.rb. Specially crafted CGI requests could cause an infinite loop in the server process. Repetitive attacks could use most of the available processor resources, exhaust the number of allowed parallel...

Ubuntu 4.10 : libxpm4 vulnerability (USN-27-1)

Chris Evans discovered several stack overflows in the versions of libXpm shipped by X.Org, XFree86, and LessTif. These overflows were fixed in the Warty development tree before its release. Mathieu Herrb of OpenBSD subsequently discovered that the original patch was insufficient to address these...

Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-47-1)

Georgi Guninski discovered two Denial of Service vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. An integer overflow in the vcresize function caused the memory allocation for the new screen being too short, thus causing a buffer overflow and a kernel crash. There was also a memory leak in the ipoptionsget...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : gtk+2.0, gdk-pixbuf vulnerabilities (USN-216-1)

Two integer overflows have been discovered in the XPM image loader of the GDK pixbuf library. By tricking an user into opening a specially crafted XPM image with any Gnome desktop application that uses this library, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...

Ubuntu 4.10 : sharutils vulnerability (USN-104-1)

Joey Hess discovered that 'unshar' created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symbolic link attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

Ubuntu 4.10 : perl vulnerability (USN-94-1)

Paul Szabo discovered another vulnerability in the rmtree function in File::Path.pm. While a process running as root or another user was busy deleting a directory tree, a different user could exploit a race condition to create setuid binaries in this directory tree, provided that he already had...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : courier vulnerabilities (USN-201-1)

Several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities were discovered in SqWebmail. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary JavaScript or other active HTML embeddable content in the web browser of an SqWebmail user by sending specially crafted emails to him. Please note that the...

Ubuntu 4.10 : perl vulnerabilities (USN-44-1)

A race condition and possible information leak has been discovered in Perl's File::Path::rmtree. This function changes the permission of files and directories before removing them to avoid problems with wrong permissions. However, they were made readable and writable not only for the owner, but f...

Ubuntu 4.10 : xpdf, tetex-bin vulnerabilities (USN-48-1)

A potential buffer overflow has been found in the xpdf viewer. An insufficient input validation could be exploited by an attacker providing a specially crafted PDF file which, when processed by xpdf, could result in abnormal program termination or the execution of attacker supplied program code...

Ubuntu 4.10 : libgd2 vulnerability (USN-25-1)

CAN-2004-0990 described several more buffer overflows which had been discovered in libgd2's PNG handling functions. However, it was determined that the update from USN-11-1 was not sufficient to prevent every possible attack, so another update is required. If an attacker tricked a user into loadi...