SUSE-SA:2006:041: acroread

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:041 acroread. Various unspecified security problems have been fixed in Acrobat Reader version 7.0.8. Adobe does not provide detailed information about the nature of the security problems. Therefore, it is necessary to assume that...

SUSE-SA:2006:048: MozillaFirefox,MozillaThunderbird,SeaMonkey

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:048 MozillaFirefox,MozillaThunderbird,SeaMonkey. To fix various security problems we released update packages that bring Mozilla Firefox to version 1.5.0.6, MozillaThunderdbird to version 1.5.0.5 and the SeaMonkey Suite to version...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-imapd (MDKSA-2005:051)

Several overruns have been fixed in the IMAP annote extension as well as in cached header handling which can be run by an authenticated user. As well, additional bounds checking in fetchnews was improved to avoid exploitation by a peer news admin. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : vim (MDKSA-2005:029)

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena discovered two vulnerabilities in scripts included with the vim editor. The two scripts, 'tcltags' and 'vimspell.sh' created temporary files in an insecure manner which could allow a malicious user to execute a symbolic link attack or to create, or overwrite,...

Debian DSA-629-1 : krb5 - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the MIT Kerberos 5 administration library libkadm5srv that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code upon exploitation by an authenticated user, not necessarily one with administrative privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDKSA-2004:159)

The Trustix developers discovered that the catchsegv and glibcbug utilities, part of the glibc package, created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow for a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the program. The updated...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDKSA-2004:156)

Michael Tautschnig discovered a heap buffer overflow in the history handling code of libkadm5srv which could be exploited by an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code on a Key Distribution Center KDC server. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : postgresql (MDKSA-2004:149)

The Trustix development team found insecure temporary file creation problems in a script included in the postgresql package. This could allow an attacker to trick a user into overwriting arbitrary files he has access to. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this problem. %NASLMINLEVE...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : openssl (MDKSA-2004:147)

The Trustix developers found that the derchop script, included in the openssl package, created temporary files insecurely. This could allow local users to overwrite files using a symlink attack. The updated packages have been patched to prevent this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Fedora Core 2 : cyrus-imapd-2.2.10-1.fc2 (2004-489)

Fix several buffer overflow problems that could be used as an exploit. Fixes the following security advisories: CVE-2004-1011 CVE-2004-1012 CVE-2004-1013 CVE-2004-1015 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory...

Fedora Core 3 : samba-3.0.9-1.fc3 (2004-460)

This update closes two security holes: CVE-2004-0882 and CVE-2004-0930. 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 introducing...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cyrus-imapd (MDKSA-2004:139)

A number of vulnerabilities in the Cyrus-IMAP server were found by Stefan Esser. Due to insufficient checking within the argument parser of the 'partial' and 'fetch' commands, a buffer overflow could be exploited to execute arbitrary attacker-supplied code. Another exploitable buffer overflow cou...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : apache (MDKSA-2004:134)

A possible buffer overflow exists in the gettag function of modinclude, and if SSI Server Side Includes are enabled, a local attacker may be able to run arbitrary code with the rights of an httpd child process. This could be done with a special HTML document using malformed SSI. The updated...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : ez-ipupdate (MDKSA-2004:129)

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a format string vulnerability in ez-ipupdate, a client for many dynamic DNS services. The updated packages are patched to protect against this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2004:117)

A vulnerability in the MSN protocol handler in the gaim instant messenger application was discovered. When receiving unexpected sequences of MSNSLP messages, it is possible that an attacker could trigger an internal buffer overflow which could lead to a crash or even code execution as the user...

RHEL 3 : cups (RHSA-2004:449)

Updated cups packages that fix a denial of service vulnerability are now available. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS is a print spooler. Alvaro Martinez Echevarria reported a bug in the CUPS Internet Printing Protocol IPP implementation in versions of CUPS prior to 1.1.21. An attacker could...

Fedora Core 1 : qt-3.1.2-14.2 (2004-270)

During a security audit, Chris Evans discovered a heap overflow in the BMP image decoder in Qt versions prior to 3.3.3. An attacker could create a carefully crafted BMP file in such a way that it would cause an application linked with Qt to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when the file w...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2004:081)

Sebastian Krahmer discovered two remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the gaim instant messenger. The updated packages are patched to correct the problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libuser (MDKSA-2004:044)

Steve Grubb discovered a number of problems in the libuser library that can lead to a crash in applications linked to it, or possibly write 4GB of garbage to the disk. The updated packages provide a patched libuser to correct these problems. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Th...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : jabber (MDKSA-2004:005)

A vulnerability was found in the jabber program where a bug in the handling of SSL connections could cause the server process to crash, resulting in a DoS Denial of Service. The updated packages are patched to correct the problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descripti...