Debian DSA-175-1 : syslog-ng - buffer overflow

Balazs Scheidler discovered a problem in the way syslog-ng handles macro expansion. When a macro is expanded a static length buffer is used accompanied by a counter. However, when constant characters are appended, the counter is not updated properly, leading to incorrect boundary checking. An...

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-325-1 : eldav - insecure temporary file

eldav, a WebDAV client for Emacs, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of the user running emacs and eldav. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, In...

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-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-322-1 : typespeed - buffer overflow

typespeed is a game which challenges the player to type words correctly and quickly. It contains a network play mode which allows players on different systems to play competitively. The network code contains a buffer overflow which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code under the...

Debian DSA-431-1 : perl - information leak

Paul Szabo discovered a number of similar bugs in suidperl, a helper program to run perl scripts with setuid privileges. By exploiting these bugs, an attacker could abuse suidperl to discover information about files such as testing for their existence and some of their permissions that should not...

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-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-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-139-1 : super - format string vulnerability

GOBBLES found an insecure use of format strings in the super package. The included program super is intended to provide access to certain system users for particular users and programs, similar to the program sudo. Exploiting this format string vulnerability a local user can gain unauthorized roo...

Debian DSA-547-1 : imagemagick - buffer overflows

Marcus Meissner from SUSE has discovered several buffer overflows in the ImageMagick graphics library. An attacker could create a malicious image or video file in AVI, BMP, or DIB format that could crash the reading process. It might be possible that carefully crafted images could also allow to...

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-286-1 : gs-common - insecure temporary file

Paul Szabo discovered insecure creation of a temporary file in ps2epsi, a script that is distributed as part of gs-common which contains common files for different Ghostscript releases. ps2epsi uses a temporary file in the process of invoking ghostscript. This file was created in an insecure...

Debian DSA-313-1 : ethereal - buffer overflows, integer overflows

Timo Sirainen discovered several vulnerabilities in ethereal, a network traffic analyzer. These include one-byte buffer overflows in the AIM, GIOP Gryphon, OSPF, PPTP, Quake, Quake2, Quake3, Rsync, SMB, SMPP, and TSP dissectors, and integer overflows in the Mount and PPP dissectors. %NASLMINLEVEL...

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-200-1 : samba - remote exploit

Steve Langasek found an exploitable bug in the password handling code in samba: when converting from DOS code-page to little endian UCS2 unicode a buffer length was not checked and a buffer could be overflowed. There is no known exploit for this, but an upgrade is strongly recommended...

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-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-050-1 : sendfile - broken privileges dropping, broken tempfile

Colin Phipps and Daniel Kobras discovered and fixed several serious bugs in the saft daemon sendfiled' which caused it to drop privileges incorrectly. Exploiting this a local user can easily make it execute arbitrary code under root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...