Debian DSA-2976-1 : eglibc - security update

Stephane Chazelas discovered that the GNU C library, glibc, processed '..' path segments in locale-related environment variables, possibly allowing attackers to circumvent intended restrictions, such as ForceCommand in OpenSSH, assuming that they can supply crafted locale settings. %NASLMINLEVEL...

USN-1258-1: ClamAV vulnerability

Stephane Chazelas discovered the bytecode engine of ClamAV improperly handled recursion under certain circumstances. This could allow a remote attacker to craft a file that could cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

Fedora 11 : nss_db-2.2-46.fc11 (2010-6331)

Stephane Chazelas reported that the nssdb module attempts to read a DBCONFIG file in the current directory when it is used. If the contents of the file can't be parsed properly, the copy of libdb which nssdb uses will print an error message. If nssdb is invoked from a setuid process, it may then...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : Apport vulnerability (USN-768-1)

Stephane Chazelas discovered that Apport did not safely remove files from its crash report directory. If Apport had been enabled at some point, a local attacker could remove arbitrary files from the system. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...