GLSA-200711-28 : Perl: Buffer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200711-28 Perl: Buffer overflow Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry Google Security Team discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the Regular Expression engine regcomp.c that occurs when switching from byte to Unicode UTF-8 characters...

Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 : firefox, mozilla-firefox vulnerabilities (USN-296-2)

USN-296-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Firefox for the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS release. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 5.04 and Ubuntu 5.10. For reference, these are the details of the original USN : Jonas Sicking discovered that under some circumstances persisted XUL...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 : debian-goodies vulnerability (USN-526-1)

Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running checkrestart. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

CVE-2003-1440

SpamProbe 0.8a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via HTML e-mail with newline characters within an href tag, which is not properly handled by certain regular expressions...

CVE-2007-5513

The XML DB XMLDB component in Oracle Database 9.2.0.8, 9.2.0.8DV, and 10.1.0.5 generates incorrect audit entries in the USERID column in which 1 long usernames are trimmed to 5 characters, or 2 short entries contain any extra characters from usernames in previous entries, aka DB23...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : php5 (php5-1590)

This update fixes the following security issues: - invalid charactes in session names were not blocked - a bug in zendhashdel allowed attackers to prevent unsetting of some variables - bugs in the substrcompare and wordwrap function could crash php CVE-2006-1991, CVE-2006-1990 - a memory leak in...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : CASA (CASA-1849)

Various bugs and problems were fixed in the CASA authentication framework, some of them security relevant : - Secrets with special characters inside were handled incorrectly. - Enhanced Salt generation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks i...

Debian DSA-1386-1 : wesnoth - programming error

A problem has been discovered in the processing of chat messages. Overly long messages are truncated by the server to a fixed length, without paying attention to the multibyte characters. This leads to invalid UTF-8 on clients and causes an uncaught exception. Note that both wesnoth and the wesno...

CVE-2002-2256

Directory traversal vulnerability in pWins Webserver 0.2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via Unicode characters...

CVE-2002-2256

The CVE-2002-2256 entry concerns the pWins Webserver (versions 0.2.5 and earlier). Affected component: the webserver’s handling of Unicode characters enables a directory traversal vulnerability, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files. The public records describe the vulnerability as a ...

hplip shell characteres

hpssd utility shell charactesr vulnerability...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0, when UTF-7 document content is rendered directly in UTF-7, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a gopher URI that uses single quote characters to delimit a literal string within an XSS sequence, a...

USN-530-1: hplip vulnerability

It was discovered that the hpssd tool of hplip did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the hplip user...

CVE-2007-3917

The multiplayer engine in Wesnoth 1.2.x before 1.2.7 and 1.3.x before 1.3.9 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service crash via a long message with multibyte characters that can produce an invalid UTF-8 string after it is truncated, which triggers an uncaught exception, involving the...

USN-526-1: debian-goodies vulnerability

Thomas de Grenier de Latour discovered that the checkrestart program included in debian-goodies did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to gain the privileges of the user running checkrestart...

mIRC unfiltered shell characters vulnerability

Shell characters are not filtered on invoking external URL handler, making it's possible to use URLs like mailto:xx../../../../../../../../../../../windows/system32/calc.exe".bat...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in 500page.jsp

The test successfully embedded a script in the response, which will be executed once the page is loaded in the user's browser. This means that the application is vulnerable to the Cross-Site Scripting attack. The file 500page.jsp should escape the attributes and parameters to prevent code...