[ GLSA 200406-18 ] gzip: Insecure creation of temporary files

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aspell: Buffer overflow in word-list-compress

Background aspell is a popular spell-checker. Dictionaries are available for many languages. Description aspell includes a utility for handling wordlists called word-list-compress. This utility fails to do proper bounds checking when processing words longer than 256 bytes. Impact If an attacker...

Squid: NTLM authentication helper buffer overflow

Background Squid contains a bug in the function ntlmcheckauth. It fails to do proper bounds checking on the values copyied to the 'pass' variable. Description Squid is a full-featured Web Proxy Cache designed to run on Unix systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs, a...

Horde-IMP: Input validation vulnerability

Background Horde-IMP is the Internet Messaging Program. It is written in PHP and provides webmail access to IMAP and POP3 accounts. Description Horde-IMP fails to properly sanitize email messages that contain malicious HTML or script code. Impact By enticing a user to read a specially crafted...

Webmin: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Webmin is a web-based administration tool for Unix. It supports a wide range of applications including Apache, DNS, file sharing and others. Description Webmin contains two security vulnerabilities. One allows any user to view the configuration of any module and the other could allow a...

Gallery: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Background Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers. Description There is a vulnerability in the Gallery photo album...

[SNS Advisory No.74] Webmin Access Control Rule Bypass Vulnerability

---------------------------------------------------------------------- SNS Advisory No.74 Webmin Access Control Rule Bypass Vulnerability Problem first discovered on: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 Published on: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview:...

CVS < 1.11.17 / 1.12.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote CVS server, according to its version number, might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system because of a flaw relating to malformed Entry lines which lead to a missing NULL terminator. Among the issues deemed likely to be exploitable were: - A double-free...

Mailman: Member password disclosure vulnerability

Background Mailman is a python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an unspecified vulnerability in the handling of request emails. Impact By sending a carefully crafted email request to the mailman server an attacker could obtain member password...

Mac OS X < 10.3.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X that is older than 10.3.4. Such versions contain several flaws that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the remote system with root privileges. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid12257;...

tla: Multiple vulnerabilities in included libneon

Background GNU Arch tla is a revision control system suited for widely distributed development. Description Multiple format string vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability were discovered in the code of the neon library GLSA 200405-01 and 200405-13. Current versions of the tla package...

MPlayer, xine-lib: vulnerabilities in RTSP stream handling

Background MPlayer is a movie player capable of handling multiple multimedia file formats. xine-lib is a multimedia player library used by several graphical user interfaces, including xine-ui. They both use the same code to handle Real-Time Streaming Protocol RTSP streams from RealNetworks server...

[Full-Disclosure] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-04:11.msync Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: buffer cache invalidation implementation issues Category: core Module: sys Announced: 2004-05-26 Credits:...

Buffer Overflow in Firebird

Background Firebird is an open source relational database that runs on Linux, Windows, and various UNIX systems. Description A buffer overflow exists in three Firebird binaries gdsinetserver, gdslockmgr, and gdsdrop that is exploitable by setting a large value to the INTERBASE environment variabl...

neon heap-based buffer overflow

Background neon provides an HTTP and WebDAV client library. Description Stefan Esser discovered a vulnerability in the code of the neon library : if a malicious date string is passed to the nerfc1036parse function, it can trigger a string overflow into static heap variables. Impact Depending on t...

Buffer overflow in Subversion

Background Subversion is a version control system intended to eventually replace CVS. Like CVS, it has an optional client-server architecture where the server can be an Apache server running modsvn, or an ssh program as in CVS's :ext: method. In addition to supporting the features found in CVS,...

Icecast denial of service vulnerability

Background Icecast is a program that streams audio data to listeners over the Internet. Description There is an out-of-bounds read error in the web interface of Icecast when handling Basic Authorization requests. This vulnerability can theorically be exploited by sending a specially crafted...

ClamAV VirusEvent parameter vulnerability

Background From http://www.clamav.net/ : "Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for...

Multiple vulnerabilities in LHa

Background LHa is a console-based program for packing and unpacking LHarc archives. Description Ulf Harnhammar found two stack overflows and two directory traversal vulnerabilities in LHa version 1.14 and 1.17. A stack overflow occurs when testing or extracting archives containing long file or...

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in neon 0.24.4 and earlier

Background neon provides an HTTP and WebDAV client library. Description There are multiple format string vulnerabilities in libneon which may allow a malicious WebDAV server to execute arbitrary code under the context of the process using libneon. Impact An attacker may be able to execute arbitra...