Debian DSA-429-1 : gnupg - cryptographic weakness

Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for signing. This update disables the use of this type of key. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

Debian DSA-506-1 : neon - buffer overflow

Stefan Esser discovered a problem in neon, an HTTP and WebDAV client library. User input is copied into variables not large enough for all cases. This can lead to an overflow of a static heap variable. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Debian DSA-149-1 : glibc - integer overflow

An integer overflow bug has been discovered in the RPC library used by GNU libc, which is derived from the SunRPC library. This bug could be exploited to gain unauthorized root access to software linking to this code. The packages below also fix integer overflows in the malloc code. They also...

Debian DSA-037-1 : Athena Widget replacement libraries - insecure tempfile handling

It has been reported that the AsciiSrc and MultiSrc widget in the Athena widget library handle temporary files insecurely. Joey Hess has ported the bugfix from XFree86 to these Xaw replacements libraries. The fixes are available in nextaw 0.5.1-34potato1, xaw3d 1.3-6.9potato1, and xaw95...

Debian DSA-300-1 : balsa - buffer overflow

Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. This code is imported in the Balsa package. This problem could potentially allow a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of...

Debian DSA-298-1 : epic4 - buffer overflows

Timo Sirainen discovered several problems in EPIC4, a popular client for Internet Relay Chat IRC. A malicious server could craft special reply strings, triggering the client to write beyond buffer boundaries. This could lead to a denial of service if the client only crashes, but may also lead to...

Debian DSA-493-1 : xchat - buffer overflow

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the Socks-5 proxy code of XChat, an IRC client for X similar to AmIRC. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the users' machine. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-127-1 : xpilot-server - remote buffer overflow

An internal audit by the xpilot a multi-player tactical manoeuvring game for X maintainers revealed a buffer overflow in xpilot server. This overflow can be abused by remote attackers to gain access to the server under which the xpilot server is running. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

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-308-1 : gzip - insecure temporary files

Paul Szabo discovered that znew, a script included in the gzip package, creates its temporary files without taking precautions to avoid a symlink attack CAN-2003-0367. The gzexe script has a similar vulnerability which was patched in an earlier release but inadvertently reverted. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-071-1 : fetchmail - memory corruption

Salvatore Sanfilippo found two remotely exploitable problems infetchmail while doing a security audit. In both the IMAP code and the POP3 code, the input isn't verified even though it's used to store a number in an array. Since no bounds checking is done this can be used by an attacker to write...

Debian DSA-323-1 : noweb - insecure temporary files

Jakob Lell discovered a bug in the 'noroff' script included in noweb whereby a temporary file was created insecurely. During a review, several other instances of this problem were found and fixed. Any of these bugs could be exploited by a local user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by the user...

Debian DSA-420-1 : jitterbug - improperly sanitised input

Steve Kemp discovered a security related problem in jitterbug, a simple CGI based bug tracking and reporting tool. Unfortunately the program executions do not properly sanitize input, which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the server hosting the bug database. As mitigating...

Debian DSA-018-1 : tinyproxy - remote nobody exploit

PkC have found a heap overflow in tinyproxy that could be remotely exploited. An attacker could gain a shell user nobody remotely. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-018. The...

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-505-1 : cvs - heap overflow

Stefan Esser discovered a heap overflow in the CVS server, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. Malformed 'Entry' Lines in combination with Is-modified and Unchanged can be used to overflow malloced memory. This was proven to be exploitable. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-159-1 : python - insecure temporary files

Zack Weinberg discovered an insecure use of a temporary file in os.execvpe from os.py. It uses a predictable name which could lead execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...

Debian DSA-285-1 : lprng - insecure temporary file

Karol Lewandowski discovered that psbanner, a printer filter that creates a PostScript format banner and is part of LPRng, insecurely creates a temporary file for debugging purpose when it is configured as filter. The program does not check whether this file already exists or is linked to another...

Debian DSA-517-1 : cvs - buffer overflow

Derek Robert Price discovered a potential buffer overflow vulnerability in the CVS server, based on a malformed Entry, which serves the popular Concurrent Versions System. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...

Debian DSA-457-1 : wu-ftpd - several vulnerabilities

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in wu-ftpd : - CAN-2004-0148 Glenn Stewart discovered that users could bypass the directory access restrictions imposed by the restricted-gid option by changing the permissions on their home directory. On a subsequent login, when access to the user's home...