ZDI-09-048: Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Behavior Memory Corruption Vulnerability

ZDI-09-048: Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Behavior Memory Corruption Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-048 August 5, 2009 -- CVE ID: CVE-2009-1919 -- Affected Vendors: Microsoft -- Affected Products: Microsoft Internet Explorer -- TippingPointTM IPS Customer...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS Behavior Memory Corruption Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific flaw exists when accessing embedded style sheets...

CVE-2009-2336

The forgotten mail interface in WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 exhibits different behavior for a password request depending on whether the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames. NOTE: the vendor reportedly disputes the significance of this issue,...

Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2009-002

Trustwave's SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2009-002: Cisco ASA Web VPN Multiple Vulnerabilities Published: 2009-06-24 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc. http://www.cisco.com Versions affected: 8.04, 8.1.2, and 8.2.1 Description: Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance ASA provides a number of...

Study: Women more affected by ID fraud

From CNet Elinor Mills Women are more affected by identity fraud then men are, according to a new survey that also found that it takes women longer to restore their identities but they also tend to change their behavior afterward. In a survey of 808 U.S. households, half of which reported fraud, ...

MDVA-2008:126 : x11-server

A Xvnc server running in 16 bpp depth would crash when a client with 16 bpp depth connected. Also, keyboard behaviour was incorrect when the X server was run with Xkb extension disabled. This update fixes both issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the...

5 security flubs users make while Web surfing

From CIO Joan Goodchild You can install the best firewalls, patch religiously, and make sure your anti-virus software is always up-to-date, but there is one online risk factor you can never control: the user. Whether they are downloading dangerous content or falling prey to phishing scams, the en...

Ubuntu Update for php5 vulnerabilities USN-549-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-549-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5491.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for php5 vulnerabilities USN-549-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:065 (php4)

The remote host is missing an update to php4 announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:065. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR...

Microsoft explains how ActiveX in Office is abused by attackers

On the Microsoft Secure Windows Iniative blog, software engineer Chengyun discusses the default behaviour of ActiveX controls embedded in Office documents. The software giant also provides information on how can an attacker abuse ActiveX and how Office users can change the behavior of ActiveX...

CVE-2002-2431

Unspecified vulnerability in GoAhead WebServer before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause "incorrect behavior" via unknown "malicious code," related to incorrect use of the socketInputBuffered function by sockGen.c...

Fedora 8 : optipng-0.6.2-1.fc8 (2008-9639)

The main reason for this update is a buffer overflow that is removed in this version, that could be triggered by processing specially crafted bitmap images .bmp. Aggregated upstream changelog: ============================== ++ Put back a speed optimization, accidentally removed in version 0.6,...

Postfix local privilege escalation via hardlinked symlinks

Summary: Solaris and Linux file system behavior has changed over time, breaking one of the assumptions in Postfix. See below for a description of the behavior and how it disagrees with standards. Postfix is not affected on systems with standard POSIX, X/Open file system behavior, i.e. BSD, AIX,...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1603-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1603-1] New bind9 packages fix cache poisoning

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1603-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer July 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2008-1685

gcc 4.2.0 through 4.3.0 in GNU Compiler Collection, when casts are not used, considers the sum of a pointer and an int to be greater than or equal to the pointer, which might lead to removal of length testing code that was intended as a protection mechanism against integer overflow and buffer...

C compilers may silently discard some wraparound checks

Overview Some C compilers optimize away pointer arithmetic overflow tests that depend on undefined behavior without providing a diagnostic a warning. Applications containing these tests may be vulnerable to buffer overflows if compiled with these compilers. Description In the C language, given th...

Different IE browser windows have different sessions and different session timeout timing

One of our user reported the following: ---- I discovered the reason why JIRA sometimes closes my IE session, it depends on the way you login: 1 When you login via navigation to your home page http://support/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa all is ok, multiple JIRA sessions never expire. 2 When you log...

SuSE 10 Security Update : madwifi (ZYPP Patch Number 4285)

This update fixes some bugs in madwifi : - possible security bug in radar detection code - dynamic Beacon Interval - Standardise Radiotap FCS Handling - fix wrong channel change behavior for AP mode - fix athhardstart returning 0 even if queue is full - rxantenna value is reset after suspend/resu...

CVE-2007-6263

The dataconn function in ftpd.c in netkit ftpd netkit-ftpd 0.17, when certain modifications to support SSL have been introduced, calls fclose on an uninitialized file stream, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash and possibly have unspecified other impact via som...