PT-2005-1146 · Ethereal +1 · Ethereal +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ethereal versions 0.10.6 through 0.10.8 Description: The issue is related to an unknown vulnerability in the Gnutella dissector, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. Recommendations: F...

BIND 8.4.4 and 8.4.5 vulnerable to buffer overflow in q_usedns

Overview A vulnerability in the BIND name server could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service against an affected system. Description The Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND is a popular Domain Name System DNS implementation from Internet Systems Consortium ISC. A buffer overflow err...

RealPlayer ActiveX control contains buffer overflow in "ShowPreferences"

Overview The RealPlayer ActiveX control contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the ShowPreferences method. This may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the user's system. Description RealNetworks RealPlayer is a multimedia application that allows users to view local and remot...

UMN Gopherd Unauthorized FTP Proxy

The remote host is running a UMN Gopher server. It is possible to make the remote server connect to third party FTP sites by sending the request 'ftp://hostname.of.the.ftp.server'. An attacker may exploit this flaw to connect to use the remote gopher daemon as a proxy to connect to FTP servers...

Konqueror fails to restrict access to Java classes

Overview The Konqueror web browser may allow Java applets and JavaScripts to bypass the Java security settings and access restricted Java classes. Exploitation may allow a remote attacker to read and write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. Description Konqueror is a web browser and file...

PT-2004-3257 · Phpx · Phpx

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PHPX versions 3.0 through 3.2.6 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks via hex-encoded tags. This is achieved by bypassing the check for literal "", "", and "" characters in the checkURI...

Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation

Background Sun and Blackdown both provide implementations of Java Development Kits JDK and Java Runtime Environments JRE. All these implementations provide a Java plug-in that can be used to execute Java applets in a restricted environment for web browsers. Description All Java plug-ins are subje...

CVE-2004-1003

Trend ScanMail allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information or disable the anti-virus capability via the smency.nsf file...

MailPost discloses sensitive system information when operating in debug mode

Overview A vulnerability is reported to exist in MailPost version 5.1.1sv and possibly earlier versions that may permit a remote attacker to gain sensitive information about the server configuration and environment.. Description According to the ProCheckUp report, MailPost contains a vulnerabilit...

Unpassworded 'bash' Backdoor Account

The account 'bash' has no password set. An attacker may use it to gain further privileges on this system. This account was likely created by a backdoor installed by a fake Linux RedHat patch. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc...

PT-2004-1967 · Apache · Apache +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache versions 1.3.x through 1.3.32 Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the get tag function in mod include, which allows local users who can create SSI documents to execute arbitrary code as the apache user. This can b...

sudoedit can expose protected file contents

Overview Sudo's -e option sudoedit improperly handles temporary files, allowing an attacker to read files that would otherwise be inaccessible. Description Sudo is a utility that allows specific users to run certain commands as root. Beginning with version 1.6.8, sudo provides safe editing...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Install Engine contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview The Active Setup Install Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This may allow an attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable system. Description The Active Setup Install Engine inseng.dll permits cabinet files to be launched and executed...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Plug-in Navigations Handling Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability

Description It is reported that Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a vulnerability that may allow a malicious Web page containing embedded flash multimedia to spoof the address bar of the browser. This could be used to lure Web users into a false sense of trust since a malicious or spoofed...

Debian DSA-163-1 : mhonarc - XSS

Jason Molenda and Hiromitsu Takagi foundways to exploit cross site scripting bugs in mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter. When processing maliciously crafted mails of type text/html mhonarc does not deactivate all scripting parts properly. This is fixed in upstream version 2.5.3. If you are worried...

Ethereal fails to properly handle malformed iSNS packets

Overview Ethereal contains a vulnerability in the way it processes Internet Storage Name Service iSNS packets. Description The Internet Storage Name Service iSNS protocol is used to automate the discovery, management, and configuration of iSCSI and Fibre Channel devices in an IP network. Ethereal...

[SECURITY] [DSA 458-2] New python2.2 packages really fix buffer overflow

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 458-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze Aughst 31st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 458-2] New python2.2 packages really fix buffer overflow

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 458-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze Aughst 31st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVS "history" command may disclose sensitive information

Overview A vulnerability exists in the history command of Concurrent Versions System CVS. If exploited, this vulnerability could disclose sensitive information about files and directories on an affected system to a remote, authenticated CVS user. Description Concurrent Versions System CVS is a...

Microsoft Outlook Web Access contains vulnerability in HTML redirection query

Overview A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Outlook Web Access OWA could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripting code in the victim's browser. Description Outlook Web Access OWA is a component of Microsoft Exchange. By using OWA, a server that is running...