Debian DSA-353-1 : sup - insecure temporary file

sup, a package used to maintain collections of files in identical versions across machines, fails to take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running sup...

Debian DSA-426-1 : netpbm-free - insecure temporary files

netpbm is a graphics conversion toolkit made up of a large number of single-purpose programs. Many of these programs were found to create temporary files in an insecure manner, which could allow a local attacker to overwrite files with the privileges of the user invoking a vulnerable netpbm tool...

Debian DSA-098-1 : libgtop - format string vulnerability and buffer overflow

Two different problems were found in libgtop-daemon : - The laboratory intexxia found a format string problem in the logging code from libgtopdaemon. There were two logging functions which are called when authorizing a client which could be exploited by a remote user. - Flavio Veloso found a buff...

Debian DSA-335-1 : mantis - incorrect permissions

mantis, a PHP/MySQL web-based bug tracking system, stores the password used to access its database in a configuration file which is world-readable. This could allow a local attacker to read the password and gain read/write access to the database. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

Debian DSA-259-1 : qpopper - mail user privilege escalation

Florian Heinz posted to the Bugtraq mailing list an exploit for qpopper based on a bug in the included vsnprintf implementation. The sample exploit requires a valid user account and password, and overflows a string in the popmsg function to give the user 'mail' group privileges and a shell on the...

Debian DSA-409-1 : bind - denial of service

A vulnerability was discovered in BIND, a domain name server, whereby a malicious name server could return authoritative negative responses with a large TTL time-to-live value, thereby rendering a domain name unreachable. A successful attack would require that a vulnerable BIND instance submit a...

Debian DSA-411-1 : mpg321 - format string vulnerability

A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player, whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf3 unsafely. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited,...

Debian DSA-378-1 : mah-jong - buffer overflows, denial of service

Nicolas Boullis discovered two vulnerabilities in mah-jong, a network-enabled game. - CAN-2003-0705 buffer overflow This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the mah-jong server. - CAN-2003-0706 denial of service...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: imlib security update

An updated imlib package that fixes several heap overflows is now available. Imlib is an image loading and rendering library. Several heap overflow flaws were found in the imlib BMP image handler. An attacker could create a carefully crafted BMP file in such a way that it could cause an applicati...

Fedora Core 1 : lha-1.14i-12.2 (2004-294)

Lukasz Wojtow discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in all versions of lha up to and including version 1.14. A carefully created archive could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code when a victim extracts or tests the archive. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org...

[SA12430] Winzip Unspecified Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

TITLE: Winzip Unspecified Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA12430 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/12430/ CRITICAL: Highly critical IMPACT: System access WHERE: From remote SOFTWARE: WinZip 9.x http://secunia.com/product/567/ WinZip 8.x...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : libneon (MDKSA-2004:032)

A number of various format string vulnerabilities were discovered in the error output handling of Neon, the HTTP and WebDAV client library, by Thomas Wana. These problems affect all versions of Neon from 0.19.0 up to and including 0.24.4. All users are encouraged to upgrade. All client software...

SuSE-SA:2004:013: cvs

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SuSE-SA:2004:013 cvs. The Concurrent Versions System CVS offers tools which allow developers to share and maintain large software projects. Stefan Esser reported buffer overflow conditions within the cvs program. They allow remote attackers to...

SUSE-SA:2003:029: pptpd

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:029 pptpd. The PPTP daemon contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow which was introduced due to a integer overflow in the third argument passed to the read library call. This bug has been fixed. Since there is no workaround...

SUSE-SA:2003:037: pine

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2003:037 pine. The well known and widely used mail client pine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. The vulnerability exists in the code processing 'message/external-body' type messages. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary...

Solaris 9 (sparc) : 116340-09

SunOS 5.9: gzip and Freeware info files patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : May/05/10 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

[SECURITY] [DSA 530-1] New l2tpd packages fix buffer overflow

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 530-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman July 17th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-528 ethereal - denial of service

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-022 Vulnerability in Task Scheduler Could Allow Code Execution (841873)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-022 Vulnerability in Task Scheduler Could Allow Code Execution 841873 Issued: July 13, 2004 Version: 1.0 Summary Who should read this document: Customers who use Microsoft® Windows® Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution Maximum Severity Rating: Critical...

Solaris 2.6 (x86) : 106640-07

SunOS 5.6x86: rpcmod patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Sep/05/02 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch is not currently a recommended security fix. Disabled on 2011/09/17. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if ! definedfunc"bnrandom...