XRDB shell characters vulnerability

Shell characters vulnerability via host name...

SuSE9 Security Update : dhcpcd (YOU Patch Number 12699)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0996 Note: this is a...

SuSE9 Security Update : dhcp (YOU Patch Number 12698)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0996 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

SuSE9 Security Update : dhcpcd (YOU Patch Number 12696)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0996 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

xrdb -- root hole via rogue hostname

Matthias Hopf reports: By crafting hostnames with shell escape characters, arbitrary commands can be executed in a root environment when a display manager reads in the resource database via xrdb. These specially crafted hostnames can occur in two environments: Systems are affected are: systems se...

isc-dhcp-client -- dhclient does not strip or escape shell meta-characters

ISC reports: ISC dhclient did not strip or escape certain shell meta-characters in responses from the dhcp server like hostname before passing the responses on to dhclient-script. Depending on the script and OS, this can result in execution of exploit code on the client...

glibc: Improper encoding of names with certain special character in utilities for writing to mtab table

The encodename macro in misc/mntentr.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.11.1 and earlier, as used by ncpmount and mount.cifs, does not properly handle newline characters in mountpoint names, which allows local users to cause a denial of service mtab corruption, or possibly modify mount...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : logwatch (SAT Patch Number 4236)

Shell meta characters in log file names could lead to execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2011-1018 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The text itself is copyright C Novell, Inc...

TeX (tex-common) shell characters vulnerability

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Design/Logic Flaw

Off-by-one error in the convertqueryhexchar function in html.c in cgit.cgi in cgit before 0.8.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a string composed of a % percent character followed by invalid hex characters, as demonstrated by a %gg sequence...

CVE-2011-1027

Off-by-one error in the convertqueryhexchar function in html.c in cgit.cgi in cgit before 0.8.3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a string composed of a % percent character followed by invalid hex characters, as demonstrated by a %gg sequence...

CVE-2010-4767

Open Ticket Request System OTRS before 2.3.6 does not properly handle e-mail messages in which the From line contains UTF-8 characters associated with diacritical marks and an invalid charset, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service duplicate tickets and duplicate auto-response...

Design/Logic Flaw

Kernel/System/EmailParser.pm in PostmasterPOP3.pl in Open Ticket Request System OTRS before 2.2.7 does not properly handle e-mail messages containing malformed UTF-8 characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service e-mail retrieval outage via a crafted message...

POP Peeper 3.7 - Local Overflow (SEH)

POP Peeper 3.7 - Local Overflow SEH !/usr/bin/ruby Title: POP Peeper 3.7 SEH Exploit Tested on: Windows XP SP2 EN Target: POP Peeper 3.7.0.0 Download Link: http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php Author: Anastasios Monachos secuid0 - anastasiosmatgmaildotcom Greetz: offsec team, inj3ct0r team appda...

POP Peeper 3.7 - Local Overflow (SEH)

!/usr/bin/ruby Title: POP Peeper 3.7 SEH Exploit Tested on: Windows XP SP2 EN Target: POP Peeper 3.7.0.0 Download Link: http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php Author: Anastasios Monachos secuid0 - anastasiosmatgmaildotcom Greetz: offsec team, inj3ct0r team appdata = ENV'APPDATA' file = appdata...

POP Peeper 3.7 SEH Overflow

!/usr/bin/ruby Title: POP Peeper 3.7 SEH Exploit Tested on: Windows XP SP2 EN Target: POP Peeper 3.7.0.0 Download Link: http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php Author: Anastasios Monachos secuid0 - anastasiosmatgmaildotcom Greetz: offsec team, inj3ct0r team appdata = ENV'APPDATA' file = appdata...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Mozilla (SAT Patch Number 1328)

This update brings the Mozilla XULRunner engine to the 1.9.0.14 stable release. It also fixes various security issues : - / CVE-2009-30 /. MFSA 2009-47 / CVE-2009-3069 / CVE-2009-3070 / CVE-2009-3071 / CVE-2009-3072 / CVE-2009-3073 - Mozilla developers and community members identified and fixed...

Fedora 15 : logwatch-7.3.6-66.20110203svn25.fc15 (2011-2396)

This update fixes CVE-2011-1018: Privilege escalation due improper sanitization of special characters in log file names Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2182-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2182-1 (logwatch)

The remote host is missing an update to logwatch announced via advisory DSA 2182-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb21821.nasl 6613 2017-07-07 12:08:40Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2182-1 logwatch Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2011 E-Soft Inc...