kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:808 Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and a page attribute mapping bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The...

CVE-2005-3165

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 tags or 2 Extension or sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet...

CVE-2005-3165

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in MediaWiki before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 tags or 2 Extension or sections that "bypass HTML style attribute restrictions" that are intended to protect against XSS vulnerabilities in Internet...

CVE-2005-2710

Format string vulnerability in Real HelixPlayer and RealPlayer 10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the 1 image handle or 2 timeformat attribute in a RealPix .rp or RealText .rt file...

CVE-2002-1813

Directory traversal vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger AIM 4.8.2790 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs by specifying the program in the href attribute of a link...

CVE-2005-1638

The vulnerability CVE-2005-1638 affects the SafeHTML library, with the _writeAttrs function failing to properly quote attribute values. This mis-handling can enable cross-site scripting (XSS) in applications that rely on SafeHTML for protection. Affected: SafeHTML prior to 1.3.2. Root cause: insu...

CVE-2005-1638

The writeAttrs function in SafeHTML before 1.3.2 does not properly handle quotes in attribute values, which could allow remote attackers to exploit cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in applications that rely on SafeHTML for protection...

CVE-2004-0462

The built-in web servers for multiple networking devices do not set the Secure attribute for sensitive cookies in HTTPS sessions, which could cause the user agent to send those cookies in plaintext over an HTTP session with the same server...

CVE-2003-1136

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Chi Kien Uong Guestbook 1.51 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 HTML in a posted message or 2 Javascript in an onmouseover attribute in an e-mail address or URL...

security flaw

The Plugin Finder Service PFS in Firefox before 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a javascript: URL in the PLUGINSPAGE attribute of an EMBED tag...

CVE-2003-1106

The CVE-2003-1106 entry describes a DoS condition in the SMTP service of Microsoft Windows 2000 prior to SP4. A remote attacker can crash or hang the service by sending an e-mail with a malformed FILETIME timestamp. The provided documents do not specify a patch or workaround; no exploit code or i...

CVE-2004-1527

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 does not properly handle certain character strings in the Path attribute, which can cause it to modify cookies in other domains when the attacker's domain name is within the target's domain name or when wildcard DNS is being used, which allows remote attackers ...

CVE-2004-0462

The built-in web servers for multiple networking devices do not set the Secure attribute for sensitive cookies in HTTPS sessions, which could cause the user agent to send those cookies in plaintext over an HTTP session with the same server...

Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0 - ActiveX Control Media File Attribute Corruption

Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.0 - ActiveX Control Media File Attribute Corruption source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12031/info The Windows Media Player ActiveX control is prone to a security weakness. The issue is that the control may be abused by a Web page to change attributes of med...

Vilistextum 2.6.6 - HTML Attribute Parsing Buffer Overflow

Vilistextum 2.6.6 - HTML Attribute Parsing Buffer Overflow source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11979/info Vilistextum is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is exposed when the application parses HTML attributes while converting an HTML file to text/ASCII. Since HTML files...

CVE-2004-0938

FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service server crash by sending an Ascend-Send-Secret attribute without the required leading packet...

FreeBSD : xerces-c2 -- Attribute blowup denial-of-service (205)

The following package needs to be updated: xerces-c2 %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated by freebsdpkg763013021d5911d9814e0001020eed82.nasl. Disabled on 2011/10/02. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright...

CVE-2004-0938

CVE-2004-0938 affects FreeRADIUS prior to 1.0.1. The issue arises when processing certain RADIUS messages (out-of-sequence/out-of-order handling and specifically an Ascend-Send-Secret attribute without the required leading packet), which can trigger a memory exception and cause a denial of servic...

Multiple networking devices fail to set the "Secure" attribute of a cookie

Overview Multiple vendors' networking devices fail to set the "Secure" cookie attribute and could disclose sensitive information about a user's HTTP session. Description Many networking devices provide a built-in web server, which may support the HTTPS protocol. When a user logs into the device...

Debian DSA-152-1 : l2tpd - missing random seed

Current versions of l2tpd, a layer 2 tunneling client/server program, forgot to initialize the random generator which made it vulnerable since all generated random number were 100% guessable. When dealing with the size of the value in an attribute value pair, too many bytes were able to be copied...