Debian DSA-2357-1 : evince - several vulnerabilities

Jon Larimer from IBM X-Force Advanced Research discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the DVI backend of the Evince document viewer : - CVE-2010-2640 Insufficient array bounds checks in the PK fonts parser could lead to function pointer overwrite, causing arbitrary code execution. - CVE-2010-2641...

Debian DSA-2355-1 : clearsilver - format string vulnerability

Leo Iannacone and Colin Watson discovered a format string vulnerability in the Python bindings for the Clearsilver HTML template system, which may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DSA-2354-1 : cups - several vulnerabilities

Petr Sklenar and Tomas Hoger discovered that missing input sanitising in the GIF decoder inside the CUPS printing system could lead to denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution through crafted GIF files. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Debian DSA-2352-1 : puppet - programming error

It was discovered that Puppet, a centralized configuration management solution, misgenerated certificates if the 'certdnsnames' option was used. This could lead to man in the middle attacks. More details are available on the Puppet website. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-2350-1 : freetype - missing input sanitising

It was discovered that missing input sanitising in Freetype's processing of CID-keyed fonts could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory...

Debian DSA-2348-1 : systemtap - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in SystemTap, an instrumentation system for Linux : - CVE-2011-2503 It was discovered that a race condition in staprun could lead to privilege escalation. - CVE-2010-4170 It was discovered that insufficient validation of environment variables in staprun cou...

Debian DSA-2351-1 : wireshark - buffer overflow

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala discovered a buffer overflow in Wireshark's ERF dissector, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2351. Th...

Debian DSA-2347-1 : bind9 - improper assert

It was discovered that BIND, a DNS server, crashes while processing certain sequences of recursive DNS queries, leading to a denial of service. Authoritative-only server configurations are not affected by this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2346-2] proftpd-dfsg regression fix

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2346-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer November 16, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-2346-2 : proftpd-dfsg - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in ProFTPD, an FTP server : - No CVE id ProFTPD incorrectly uses data from an unencrypted input buffer after encryption has been enabled with STARTTLS, an issue similar to CVE-2011-0411. - CVE-2011-4130 ProFTPD uses a response pool after freeing it under...

Debian DSA-2343-1 : openssl - CA trust revocation

Several weak certificates were issued by Malaysian intermediate CA'Digicert Sdn. Bhd.' This event, along with other issues, has lead to Entrust Inc. and Verizon Cybertrust to revoke the CA's cross-signed certificates. This update to OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, reflects this decision ...

Debian DSA-2341-1 : iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox. The included XULRunner library provides rendering services for several other applications included in Debian. - CVE-2011-3647 'mozbugra4' discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in addon handling. -...

Debian DSA-2342-1 : iceape - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been found in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of SeaMonkey : - CVE-2011-3647 'mozbugra4' discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in addon handling. - CVE-2011-3648 Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that incorrect handling of Shift-JIS encodings could...

Debian DSA-2340-1 : postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4, postgresql-9.0 - weak password hashing

magnum discovered that the blowfish password hashing used amongst others in PostgreSQL contained a weakness that would give passwords with 8 bit characters the same hash as weaker equivalents. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Debian DSA-2338-1 : moodle - several vulnerabilities

Several cross-site scripting and information disclosure issues have been fixed in Moodle, a course management system for online learning : - MSA-11-0020 Continue links in error messages can lead offsite - MSA-11-0024 reCAPTCHA images were being authenticated from an older server - MSA-11-0025 Gro...

Debian DSA-2339-1 : nss - several vulnerabilities

This update to the NSS cryptographic libraries revokes the trust in the'DigiCert Sdn. Bhd' certificate authority. More information can be found in the Mozilla Security Blog. This update also fixes an insecure load path for pkcs11.txt configuration file CVE-2011-3640 . %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenabl...

Debian DSA-2336-1 : ffmpeg - several vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in FFmpeg, a multimedia player, server and encoder : - CVE-2011-3362 An integer signedness error in decoderesidualblock function of the Chinese AVS video CAVS decoder in libavcodec can lead to denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibl...

Debian DSA-2334-1 : mahara - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Mahara, an electronic portfolio, weblog, and resume builder : - CVE-2011-2771 Teemu Vesala discovered that missing input sanitising of RSS feeds could lead to cross-site scripting. - CVE-2011-2772 Richard Mansfield discovered that insufficient upload...

Debian DSA-2335-1 : man2html - missing input sanitization

Tim Starling discovered that the Debian-native CGI wrapper for man2html, a program to convert UNIX man pages to HTML, is not properly escaping user-supplied input when displaying various error messages. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks...

Debian DSA-2323-1 : radvd - several vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered by Vasiliy Kulikov in radvd, an IPv6 Router Advertisement daemon : - CVE-2011-3602 setinterfacevar function doesn't check the interface name, which is chosen by an unprivileged user. This could lead to an arbitrary file overwrite if the attacker has local...