Debian DSA-050-1 : sendfile - broken privileges dropping, broken tempfile

Colin Phipps and Daniel Kobras discovered and fixed several serious bugs in the saft daemon sendfiled' which caused it to drop privileges incorrectly. Exploiting this a local user can easily make it execute arbitrary code under root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Debian DSA-223-1 : geneweb - information exposure

A security issue has been discovered by Daniel de Rauglaudre, upstream author of geneweb, a genealogical software with web interface. It runs as a daemon on port 2317 by default. Paths are not properly sanitized, so a carefully crafted URL lead geneweb to read and display arbitrary files of the...

Debian DSA-126-1 : imp - XSS

A cross-site scripting CSS problem was discovered in Horde and IMP a web-based IMAP mail package. This was fixed upstream in Horde version 1.2.8 and IMP version 2.2.8. The relevant patches have been back-ported to version 1.2.6-0.potato.5 of the horde package and version 2.2.6-0.potato.5 of the i...

Debian DSA-505-1 : cvs - heap overflow

Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. Malformed 'Entry' Lines in combination with Is-modified and Unchanged can be used to overflow malloced memory. This was proven to be exploitable. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-516-1 : postgresql - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the ODBC driver of PostgreSQL, an object-relational SQL database, descended from POSTGRES. It is possible to exploit this problem and crash the surrounding application. Hence, a PHP script using php4-odbc can be utilised to crash the surrounding Apache...

Debian DSA-108-1 : wmtv - symlink vulnerability

Nicolas Boullis found some security problems in the wmtv package a dockable video4linux TV player for windowmaker which is distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. With the current version of wmtv, the configuration file is written back as the superuser, and without any further checks. A malicious us...

Debian DSA-139-1 : super - format string vulnerability

GOBBLES found an insecure use of format strings in the super package. The included program super is intended to provide access to certain system users for particular users and programs, similar to the program sudo. Exploiting this format string vulnerability a local user can gain unauthorized roo...

Debian DSA-200-1 : samba - remote exploit

Steve Langasek found an exploitable bug in the password handling code in samba: when converting from DOS code-page to little endian UCS2 unicode a buffer length was not checked and a buffer could be overflowed. There is no known exploit for this, but an upgrade is strongly recommended...

Debian DSA-544-1 : webmin - insecure temporary directory

Ludwig Nussel discovered a problem in webmin, a web-based administration toolkit. A temporary directory was used but without checking for the previous owner. This could allow an attacker to create the directory and place dangerous symbolic links inside. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-286-1 : gs-common - insecure temporary file

Paul Szabo discovered insecure creation of a temporary file in ps2epsi, a script that is distributed as part of gs-common which contains common files for different Ghostscript releases. ps2epsi uses a temporary file in the process of invoking ghostscript. This file was created in an insecure...

Serendipity < 0.7.0beta3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote version of Serendipity is vulnerable to SQL injection issues due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user- supplied input. An attacker may exploit this flaw to issue arbitrary statements in the remote database, and therefore, bypass authorization or even overwrite...

aspWebAlbum album.asp SQL Injection

The remote host appears to be running aspWebAlbum, an ASP script designed to faciliate the integration of multiple photo albums in a web-based application. There is a flaw in the remote software that could allow anyone to inject arbitrary SQL commands, which may in turn be used to gain...

Emulive Server4 Authentication Bypass

The remote host is running EmuLive Server4, a web and media streaming server. There is a flaw in the administrative interface that allows a remote attacker to bypass the authentication procedure by requesting the page '/public/admin/index.htm' directly. An attacker may exploit this flaw to gain...

Subversion < 1.0.8 / 1.1.0-rc4 mod_authz_svn Unreadable Path Metadata Information Disclosure

You are running a version of Subversion which is older than 1.0.8 or 1.1.0-rc4. A flaw exists in older version, in the apache module modauthzsvn, which fails to properly restrict access to metadata within unreadable paths. An attacker can read metadata in unreadable paths, which can contain...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: samba security update

Updated samba packages that fix two denial of service vulnerabilities are now available. Updated 23rd September 2004 Packages have been updated to include the ppc64 packages which were left out of the initial errata. Samba provides file and printer sharing services to SMB/CIFS clients. The Samba...

xine-lib: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background xine-lib is a multimedia library which can be utilized to create multimedia frontends. Description xine-lib contains two stack-based overflows and one heap-based overflow. In the code reading VCD disc labels, the ISO disc label is copied into an unprotected stack buffer of fixed size...

FreeRADIUS: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server implementation. Description There are undisclosed defects in the way FreeRADIUS handles incorrect received packets. Impact A remote attacker could send specially-crafted packets to the FreeRADIUS server to deny service to other...

Foomatic: Arbitrary command execution in foomatic-rip filter

Background Foomatic is a system for connecting printer drivers with spooler systems such as CUPS and LPD. The foomatic-filters package contains wrapper scripts which are designed to be used with Foomatic. Description There is a vulnerability in the foomatic-filters package. This vulnerability is...

PHP rfc1867.c $_FILES Array Crafted MIME Header Arbitrary File Upload

The remote host is running a version of PHP that is older than 4.3.9 or 5.0.2. The remote version of this software is affected by an unspecified file upload vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to upload arbitrary files to the server. This flaw can only be exploited locally...

Apache 2, mod_dav: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The Apache HTTP server is one of most popular web servers on the internet. modssl provides SSL v2/v3 and TLS v1 support for it and moddav is the Apache module for Distributed Authoring and Versioning DAV. Description A potential infinite loop has been found in the input filter of modss...