[SECURITY] [DSA 592-1] New ez-ipupdate packages fix format string vulnerability

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 592-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 12th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-574-1 : cabextract - missing directory sanitising

The upstream developers discovered a problem in cabextract, a tool to extract cabinet files. The program was able to overwrite files in upper directories. This could lead an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and packag...

Debian DSA-585-1 : shadow - programming error

A vulnerability has been discovered in the shadow suite which provides programs like chfn and chsh. It is possible for a user, who is logged in but has an expired password to alter his account information with chfn or chsh without having to change the password. The problem was originally thought ...

Debian DSA-582-1 : libxml - buffer overflow

'infamous41md' discovered several buffer overflows in libxml and libxml2, the XML C parser and toolkits for GNOME. Missing boundary checks could cause several buffers to be overflown, which may cause the client to execute arbitrary code. The following vulnerability matrix lists corrected versions...

Debian DSA-572-1 : ecartis - several vulnerabilities

A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing-list manager, which allows an attacker in the same domain as the list admin to gain administrator privileges and alter list settings. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

Debian DSA-569-1 : netkit-telnet-ssl - invalid free(3)

Michal Zalewski discovered a bug in the netkit-telnet server telnetd whereby a remote attacker could cause the telnetd process to free an invalid pointer. This causes the telnet server process to crash, leading to a straightforward denial of service inetd will disable the service if telnetd is...

Debian DSA-343-1 : skk, ddskk - insecure temporary file

skk Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program, does not take appropriate security precautions when creating temporary files. This bug could potentially be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Emacs and skk. ddskk is derived from the same code, and contains...

Debian DSA-424-1 : mc - buffer overflow

A vulnerability was discovered in Midnight Commander, a file manager, whereby a malicious archive such as a .tar file could cause arbitrary code to be executed if opened by Midnight Commander. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-036-1 : Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-397-1 : postgresql - buffer overflow

Tom Lane discovered a buffer overflow in the toascii function in PostgreSQL. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the host running the database. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

Debian DSA-444-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-ia64 - missing function return value check

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-252-1 : slocate - buffer overflow

A problem has been discovered in slocate, a secure locate replacement. A buffer overflow in the setgid program slocate can be used to execute arbitrary code as group slocate. This can be used to alter the slocate database. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

Debian DSA-438-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.18-alpha+i386+powerpc - missing function return value check

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap2 system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Debian DSA-271-1 : ecartis - unauthorized password change

A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing list manager, formerly known as listar. This vulnerability enables an attacker to reset the password of any user defined on the list server, including the list admins. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-244-1 : noffle - buffer overflows

Dan Jacobson noticed a problem in noffle, an offline news server, that leads to a segmentation fault. It is not yet clear whether this problem is exploitable. However, if it is, a remote attacker could trigger arbitrary code execution under the user that calls noffle, probably news. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-210-1 : lynx - CRLF injection

lynx a text-only web browser did not properly check for illegal characters in all places, including processing of command line options, which could be used to insert extra HTTP headers in a request. For Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato this has been fixed in version 2.8.3-1.1 of the lynx package and...

Debian DSA-061-1 : gnupg - printf format attack

The version of GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP implementation as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems : - fish stiqz reported on bugtraq that there was a printf format problem in the doget function: it printed a prompt which included the filename that was being...

Debian DSA-526-1 : webmin - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in webmin : CAN-2004-0582: Unknown vulnerability in Webmin 1.140 allows remote attackers to bypass access control rules and gain read access to configuration information for a module. CAN-2004-0583: The account lockout functionality in 1 Webmin 1.140 and 2...

Debian DSA-263-1 : netpbm-free - math overflow errors

Al Viro and Alan Cox discovered several maths overflow errors in NetPBM, a set of graphics conversion tools. These programs are not installed setuid root but are often installed to prepare data for processing. These vulnerabilities may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execut...

Debian DSA-215-1 : cyrus-imapd - buffer overflow

Timo Sirainen discovered a buffer overflow in the Cyrus IMAP server, which could be exploited by a remote attacker prior to logging in. A malicious user could craft a request to run commands on the server under the UID and GID of the cyrus server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...