Debian DSA-538-1 : rsync - unsanitised input processing

The rsync developers have discovered a security related problem in rsync, a fast remote file copy program, which offers an attacker to access files outside of the defined directory. To exploit this path-sanitizing bug, rsync has to run in daemon mode with the chroot option being disabled. It does...

Debian DSA-462-1 : xitalk - missing privilege release

Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a problem in xitalk, a talk intercept utility for the X Window System. A local user can exploit this problem and execute arbitrary commands under the GID utmp. This could be used by an attacker to remove traces from the utmp file...

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-435-1 : mpg123 - heap overflow

A vulnerability was discovered in mpg123, a command-line mp3 player, whereby a response from a remote HTTP server could overflow a buffer allocated on the heap, potentially permitting execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking mpg123. In order for this vulnerability to b...

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-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-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-190-1 : wmaker - buffer overflow

Al Viro found a problem in the image handling code use in Window Maker, a popular NEXTSTEP like window manager. When creating an image it would allocate a buffer by multiplying the image width and height, but did not check for an overflow. This makes it possible to overflow the buffer. This could...

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-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-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-490-1 : zope - arbitrary code execution

A vulnerability has been discovered in the index support of the ZCatalog plug-in in Zope, an open source web application server. A flaw in the security settings of ZCatalog allows anonymous users to call arbitrary methods of catalog indexes. The vulnerability also allows untrusted code to do the...

Debian DSA-022-1 : exmh - local insecure tempfile creation

Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary files. No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack. This could lead to a malicious local user being able to overwrite any file...

Debian DSA-087-1 : wu-ftpd - remote root exploit

CORE ST reports that an exploit has been found for a bug in the wu-ftpd glob code this is the code that handles filename wildcard expansion. Any logged in user including anonymous FTP users can exploit the bug to gain root privileges on the server. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

Debian DSA-369-1 : zblast - buffer overflow

Steve Kemp discovered a buffer overflow in zblast-svgalib, when saving the high score file. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to gain gid 'games', if they can achieve a high score. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

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-198-1 : nullmailer - denial of service

A problem has been discovered in nullmailer, a simple relay-only mail transport agent for hosts that relay mail to a fixed set of smart relays. When a mail is to be delivered locally to a user that doesn't exist, nullmailer tries to deliver it, discovers a user unknown error and stops delivering...

Debian DSA-439-1 : linux-kernel-2.4.16-arm - several vulnerabilities

Several local root exploits have been discovered recently in the Linux kernel. This security advisory updates the ARM kernel for Debian GNU/Linux. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems that are fixed with this update : - CAN-2003-0961 : An integer...

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...