Inktomi Search MS-DOS Device Name Request Path Disclosure

This web server is running a vulnerable version of Verity Ultraseek formerly Inktomi Search. Certain requests using MS-DOS special file names such as NUL can cause a python error. The error message contains sensitive information such as the physical path of the webroot. This information may be...

RHEL 2.1 : stunnel (RHSA-2003:223)

Updated stunnel packages are now available. These updates correct a potential vulnerability in stunnel's signal handling. Stunnel is a wrapper for network connections. It can be used to tunnel an unencrypted network connection over a secure connection encrypted using SSL or TLS or to provide a...

RHEL 2.1 : mgetty (RHSA-2003:008)

Updated Mgetty packages are now available to fix a possible buffer overflow and a permissions problem. Mgetty is a getty replacement for use with data and fax modems. Mgetty can be configured to run an external program to decide whether or not to answer an incoming call based on Caller ID...

MacOS X Version Unsupported

The version of Mac OS X on the remote system is unsupported, and therefore unable to receive the latest security updates from Apple. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2014/07/06. Deprecated by unsupportedoperatingsystem.nasl. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if...

Linux 2.6 Netfilter TCP Option Matching DoS

It was possible to crash the remote host by sending a specially malformed TCP/IP packet with invalid TCP options. Only version 2.6 of the Linux kernel is known to be affected by this problem. An attacker may use this flaw to disable this host remotely. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. Ref: From:...

[ 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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...