[SECURITY] Fedora Core 6 Update: perl-5.8.8-12

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common...

pcre integer overflow

Integer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 6.7 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that involves large 1 min, 2 max, or 3 duplength values that cause an incorrect length calculation and trigger a buffer overflo...

security flaw

Integer overflow in the wordwrap function in string.c in PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain long arguments that cause a small buffer to be allocated, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in a memcpy function call, a different...

security flaw

Konqueror 3.3.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary FTP commands via an ftp:// URL that contains a URL-encoded newline "%0a" before the FTP command, which causes the commands to be inserted into the resulting FTP session, as demonstrated using a PORT command...

CVE-2004-1051

sudo before 1.6.8p2 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by using "" style environment variables to create functions that have the same name as any program within the bash script that is called without using the program's full pathname...

Solaris 2.x/7.0/8 - Derived 'login' Remote Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3681/info The 'login' program is used in UNIX systems to authenticate users with a username and password. The utility is typically invoked at the console, by 'telnetd', 'rlogind', and if configured to do so, SSH. Versions of 'login' descended from System ...

netscape.coredump.txt

Problem with Netscape Navigator Core Dumps When Netscape Navigator for unix dumps core, at least the following are readily extractable from the core dump: the complete contents of the user's bookmarks file the URL of every site visited in the session the text of every site visited in the session...