Verity Ultraseek Search Request XSS

The remote host is running Ultraseek, an enterprise search engine. This version has a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to execute malicious script code on a vulnerable server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

UnAce: Buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities

Background UnAce is an utility to extract, view and test the contents of an ACE archive. Description Ulf Harnhammar discovered that UnAce suffers from buffer overflows when testing, unpacking or listing specially crafted ACE archives CAN-2005-0160. He also found out that UnAce is vulnerable to...

Golden FTP server contains a buffer overflow

Overview Golden FTP server contains a buffer overflow that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Golden FTP server is a personal FTP server for the Microsoft Windows platform. The RNTO rename to command is used in conjunction with the RNFR rename from to rename a file...

Mambo Open Source Tar.php Remote File Inclusion

The version of Mambo Open Source on the remote host fails to properly sanitize input passed through the 'mosConfigabsolutepath' parameter of the 'Tar.php' script. Provided PHP's 'registerglobals' setting is enabled, a remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to cause code to be executed in...

[ GLSA 200502-27 ] gFTP: Directory traversal vulnerability

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gFTP: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background gFTP is a GNOME based, multi-threaded file transfer client. Description gFTP lacks input validation of filenames received by remote servers. Impact An attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious FTP server and conduct a directory traversal attack by making use of specially...

Blazix Trailing Character JSP Source Disclosure

The remote host is running the Blazix web server, a web server written in Java. The installed version of Blazix discloses the source code of its JSP pages by requesting the pages while appending a plus sign or a backslash to its name. An attacker may use this flaw to get the source code of your...

fingerd Remote Overflow

Nessus was able to crash the remote finger daemon by sending a very long request. This is likely due to a buffer overflow. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid17141; scriptversion...

Debian DSA-684-1 : typespeed - format string

Ulf Harnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in typespeed, a touch-typist trainer disguised as game. This could lead to a local attacker executing arbitrary code as group games. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Emacs, XEmacs: Format string vulnerabilities in movemail

Background GNU Emacs and XEmacs are highly extensible and customizable text editors. movemail is an Emacs utility that can fetch mail on remote mail servers. Description Max Vozeler discovered that the movemail utility contains several format string errors. Impact An attacker could set up a...

vBulletin forumdisplay.php comma Parameter Arbitrary Command Execution

The remote version of vBulletin is vulnerable to a remote command execution flaw through the script 'forumdisplay.php'. A malicious user could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands on the remote host with the privileges of the web server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

PowerDNS: Denial of Service vulnerability

Background The PowerDNS Nameserver is an authoritative-only nameserver which uses a flexible backend architecture. Description A vulnerability has been reported in the DNSPacket::expand method of dnspacket.cc. Impact An attacker could cause a temporary Denial of Service by sending a random stream...

Mailman: Directory traversal vulnerability

Background Mailman is a Python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface. Description Mailman contains an error in private.py which fails to properly sanitize input paths. Impact An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files on the web server. Workaround There is n...

pdftohtml: Vulnerabilities in included Xpdf

Background pdftohtml is a utility to convert PDF files to HTML or XML formats. It makes use of Xpdf code to decode PDF files. Description Xpdf is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, as described in GLSA 200501-28. Impact An attacker could entice a user to convert a specially-crafted PDF file,...

RaidenHTTPD Crafted Request Arbitrary File Access

The remote host is running a version of RaidenHTTPD which is vulnerable to a remote directory traversal bug. An attacker exploiting this bug would be able to gain access to potentially confidential material outside of the web root. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if...

LessTif: Multiple vulnerabilities in libXpm

Background LessTif is a clone of OSF/Motif, which is a standard user interface toolkit available on Unix and Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, out of bounds memory access and directory traversals, have been discovered in libXpm, which is shipped as a part of...

PostgreSQL < 7.2.7 / 7.3.9 / 7.4.7 / 8.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote PostgreSQL server, according to its version number, is vulnerable to multiple flaws that could allow an attacker who has the rights to query the remote database to obtain a shell on this host. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

Newspost: Buffer overflow vulnerability

Background Newspost is a Usenet News binary autoposter. Description Niels Heinen has discovered a buffer overflow in the socketgetline function of Newspost, which can be triggered by providing long strings that do not end with a newline character. Impact A remote attacker could setup a malicious...

ngIRCd < 0.8.3 Log_Resolver() Format String

According to its banner, the version of the ngIRCd chat service running on the remote host contains a format string vulnerability. If it was compiled with IDENT, DEBUG is enabled, and it's logging to SYSLOG, a remote attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code on the remote host...

UW IMAP: CRAM-MD5 authentication bypass

Background UW IMAP is the University of Washington IMAP toolkit which includes POP3 and IMAP daemons. Description A logic bug in the code handling CRAM-MD5 authentication incorrectly specifies the condition for successful authentication. Impact An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to...