Debian DSA-248-1 : hypermail - buffer overflows

Ulf Harnhammar discovered two problems in hypermail, a program to create HTML archives of mailing lists. An attacker could craft a long filename for an attachment that would overflow two buffers when a certain option for interactive use was given, opening the possibility to inject arbitrary code...

Debian DSA-528-1 : ethereal - denial of service

Several denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities are described in the ethereal advisory 'enpa-sa-00015'. Of these, only one CAN-2004-0635 affects the version of ethereal in Debian woody. This vulnerability could be exploited ...

Debian DSA-356-1 : xtokkaetama - buffer overflows

Steve Kemp discovered two buffer overflows in xtokkaetama, a puzzle game, when processing the -display command line option and the XTOKKAETAMADIR environment variable. These vulnerabilities could be exploited by a local attacker to gain gid 'games'. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Debian DSA-277-1 : apcupsd - buffer overflows, format string

The controlling and management daemon apcupsd for APC's Unbreakable Power Supplies is vulnerable to several buffer overflows and format string attacks. These bugs can be exploited remotely by an attacker to gain root access to the machine apcupsd is running on. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

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-261-1 : tcpdump - infinite loop

A problem has been discovered in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. An attacker is able to send a specially crafted RADIUS network packet which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

Debian DSA-534-1 : mailreader - directory traversal

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in mailreader whereby remote attackers could view arbitrary files with the privileges of the nph-mr.cgi process by default, www-data via relative paths and a null byte in the configLanguage parameter. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

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-086-1 : ssh-nonfree - remote root exploit

We have received reports that the 'SSH CRC-32 compensation attack detector vulnerability' is being actively exploited. This is the same integer type error previously corrected for OpenSSH in DSA-027-1. OpenSSH the Debian ssh package was fixed at that time, but ssh-nonfree and ssh-socks were not...

Debian DSA-180-1 : nis - information leak

Thorsten Kukuck discovered a problem in the ypserv program which is part of the Network Information Services NIS. A memory leak in all versions of ypserv prior to 2.5 is remotely exploitable. When a malicious user could request a non-existing map the server will leak parts of an old domainname an...

Debian DSA-095-1 : gpm - local root vulnerability

The package 'gpm' contains the gpm-root program, which can be used to create mouse-activated menus on the console. Among other problems, the gpm-root program contains a format string vulnerability, which allows an attacker to gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Debian DSA-296-1 : kdebase - insecure execution

The KDE team discovered a vulnerability in the way KDE uses Ghostscript software for processing of PostScript PS and PDF files. An attacker could provide a malicious PostScript or PDF file via mail or websites that could lead to executing arbitrary commands under the privileges of the user viewin...

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-172-1 : tkmail - insecure temporary files

It has been discovered that tkmail creates temporary files insecurely. Exploiting this an attacker with local access can easily create and overwrite files as another user. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

Debian DSA-427-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.17-mips+mipsel - missing boundary check

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap in the Linux kernel present in version 2.4.x and 2.6.x which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. Version 2.2 is not affected by this bug. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-273-1 : krb4 - Cryptographic weakness

A cryptographic weakness in version 4 of the Kerberos protocol allows an attacker to use a chosen-plaintext attack to impersonate any principal in a realm. Additional cryptographic weaknesses in the krb4 implementation permit the use of cut-and-paste attacks to fabricate krb4 tickets for...

Debian DSA-169-1 : htcheck - XSS

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a problem in ht://Check's PHP interface. The PHP interface displays information unchecked which was gathered from crawled external web servers. This could lead into a cross site scripting attack if somebody has control over the server responses of a remote web server whi...

Debian DSA-116-1 : cfs - buffer overflow

Zorgon found several buffer overflows in cfsd, a daemon that pushes encryption services into the Unixtm file system. We are not yet sure if these overflows can successfully be exploited to gain root access to the machine running the CFS daemon. However, since cfsd can easily be forced to die, a...

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-411-1 : mpg321 - format string vulnerability

A vulnerability was discovered in mpg321, a command-line mp3 player, whereby user-supplied strings were passed to printf3 unsafely. This vulnerability could be exploited by a remote attacker to overwrite memory, and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order for this vulnerability to be exploited,...