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-189-1 : luxman - local root exploit

iDEFENSE reported about a vulnerability in LuxMan, a maze game for GNU/Linux, similar to the PacMan arcade game. When successfully exploited a local attacker gains read-write access to the memory, leading to a local root compromise in many ways, examples of which include scanning the file for...

Debian DSA-176-1 : gv - buffer overflow

Zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow in gv, a PostScript and PDF viewer for X11. This problem is triggered by scanning the PostScript file and can be exploited by an attacker sending a malformed PostScript or PDF file. The attacker is able to cause arbitrary code to be run with the privileges o...

Debian DSA-070-1 : netkit-telnet - remote exploit

The netkit-telnet daemon contained in the telnetd package version 0.16-4potato1, which is shipped with the 'stable' 2.2, potato distribution of Debian GNU/Linux, is vulnerable to an exploitable overflow in its output handling. The original bug was found by , and announced to bugtraq on Jul 18 200...

Debian DSA-085-1 : nvi - Format string vulnerability

Takeshi Uno found a very stupid format string vulnerability in all versions of nvi in both, the plain and the multilingualized version. When a filename is saved, it ought to get displayed on the screen. The routine handling this didn't escape format strings. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-284-1 : kdegraphics - 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-253-1 : openssl - information leak

A vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Socket Layer SSL implementation. In an upcoming paper, Brice Canvel EPFL, Alain Hiltgen UBS, Serge Vaudenay EPFL, and Martin Vuagnoux EPFL, Ilion describe and demonstrate a timing-based attack on CBC cipher suites used in SSL and TLS. OpenS...

Debian DSA-464-1 : gdk-pixbuf - broken image handling

Thomas Kristensen discovered a vulnerability in gdk-pixbuf binary package libgdk-pixbuf2, the GdkPixBuf image library for Gtk, that can cause the surrounding application to crash. To exploit this problem, a remote attacker could send a carefully-crafted BMP file via mail, which would cause e.g...

Debian DSA-015-1 : sash - broken maintainer script

Versions of the sash package prior to 3.4-4 did not clone /etc/shadow properly, causing it to be made world-readable. This package only exists in stable, so if you are running unstable you won't see a bugfix unless you use the resources from the bottom of this message to the proper configuration...

Debian DSA-059-1 : man-db - symlink attack

Luki R. reported a bug in man-db: it did not handle nested calls ofdropeffectiveprivs and regaineffectiveprivs correctly which would cause it to regain privileges too early. This could be abused to make man create files as user man. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-422-1 : cvs - remote vulnerability

The account management of the CVS pserver which is used to give remote access to CVS repositories uses a CVSROOT/passwd file in each repository which contains the accounts and their authentication information as well as the name of the local unix account to use when a pserver account is used. Sin...

Debian DSA-074-1 : wmaker - buffer overflow

Alban Hertroys found a buffer overflow in Window Maker a popular window manager for X. The code that handles titles in the window list menu did not check the length of the title when copying it to a buffer. Since applications will set the title using data that can't be trusted for example, most w...

Debian DSA-415-1 : zebra - denial of service

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in zebra, an IP routing daemon : - CAN-2003-0795 - a bug in the telnet CLI could allow a remote attacker to cause a zebra process to crash, resulting in a denial of service. - CAN-2003-0858 - netlink messages sent by other users rather than the kernel would be...

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-478-1 : tcpdump - denial of service

tcpdump, a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition, was found to contain two vulnerabilities whereby tcpdump could be caused to crash through attempts to read from invalid memory locations. This bug is triggered by certain invalid ISAKMP packets. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Debian DSA-119-1 : ssh -- local root exploit, remote client exploit

Joost Pol reports that OpenSSH versions 2.0 through 3.0.2 have an off-by-one bug in the channel allocation code. This vulnerability can be exploited by authenticated users to gain root privilege or by a malicious server exploiting a client with this bug. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This...

Debian DSA-206-1 : tcpdump - denial of service

The BGP decoding routines for tcpdump used incorrect bounds checking when copying data. This could be abused by introducing malicious traffic on a sniffed network for a denial of service attack against tcpdump, or possibly even remote code execution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

Debian DSA-371-1 : perl - XSS

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the startform function in CGI.pm. This function outputs user-controlled data into the action attribute of a form element without sanitizing it, allowing a remote user to execute arbitrary web script within the context of the generated page. Any progr...

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-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...