Debian DSA-1901-1 : mediawiki1.7 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki1.7, a website engine for collaborative work. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2008-5249 David Remahl discovered that mediawiki1.7 is prone to a cross-site scripting attack. -...

Debian DSA-1895-1 : xmltooling - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the xmltooling packages, as used by Shibboleth : - Chris Ries discovered that decoding a crafted URL leads to a crash and potentially, arbitrary code execution. - Ian Young discovered that embedded NUL characters in certificate names were not...

Debian DSA-1970-1 : openssl - denial of service

It was discovered that a significant memory leak could occur in OpenSSL, related to the reinitialization of zlib. This could result in a remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability when using the Apache httpd server in a configuration where modssl, modphp5, and the php5-curl extension ar...

Debian DSA-1838-1 : pulseaudio - privilege escalation

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes discovered that the pulseaudio daemon does not drop privileges before re-executing itself, enabling local attackers to increase their privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Debian DSA-1879-1 : silc-client/silc-toolkit - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the software suite for the SILC protocol, a network protocol designed to provide end-to-end security for conferencing services. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2008-7159 An incorrect format...

Debian DSA-1979-1 : lintian - multiple vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in lintian, a Debian package checker. The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project ids have been assigned to identify them : - CVE-2009-4013: missing control files sanitation Control field names and values were not sanitised before using...

Debian DSA-1884-1 : nginx - buffer underflow

Chris Ries discovered that nginx, a high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server, is vulnerable to a buffer underflow when processing certain HTTP requests. An attacker can use this to execute arbitrary code with the rights of the worker process www-data on Debian or...

Debian DSA-1836-1 : fckeditor - missing input sanitising

Vinny Guido discovered that multiple input sanitising vulnerabilities in Fckeditor, a rich text web editor component, may 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...

Debian DSA-1933-1 : cups - missing input sanitising

Aaron Siegel discovered that the web interface of cups, the Common UNIX Printing System, is prone to cross-site scripting attacks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1933. The...

Debian DSA-1841-1 : git-core - denial of service

It was discovered that git-daemon which is part of git-core, a popular distributed revision control system, is vulnerable to denial of service attacks caused by a programming mistake in handling requests containing extra unrecognized arguments which results in an infinite loop. While this is no...

Debian DSA-1992-1 : chrony - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chrony, a pair of programs which are used to maintain the accuracy of the system clock on a computer. This issues are similar to the NTP security flaw CVE-2009-3563. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems ...

Debian DSA-1893-1 : cyrus-imapd-2.2 kolab-cyrus-imapd - buffer overflow

It was discovered that the SIEVE component of cyrus-imapd and kolab-cyrus-imapd, the Cyrus mail system, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing SIEVE scripts. This can be used to elevate privileges to the cyrus system user. An attacker who is able to install SIEVE scripts executed by t...

Debian DSA-1972-1 : audiofile - buffer overflow

Max Kellermann discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the handling of ADPCM WAV files in libaudiofile. This flaw could result in a denial of service application crash or possibly execution of arbitrary code via a crafted WAV file. The old stable distribution etch, this problem will be fixed i...

Debian DSA-1873-1 : xulrunner - programming error

Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian discovered that incorrect handling of invalid URLs could be used for spoofing the location bar and the SSL certificate status of a web page. Xulrunner is no longer supported for the old stable distribution etch. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

Debian DSA-1911-1 : pygresql - missing escape function

It was discovered that pygresql, a PostgreSQL module for Python, was missing a function to call PQescapeStringConn. This is needed, because PQescapeStringConn honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The new...

Debian DSA-1845-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service, privilege escalation

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1895 Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the Linux...

Debian DSA-1956-1 : xulrunner - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications, such as the Iceweasel web browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-3986 : David James discovered that the window.opener...

Debian DSA-1869-1 : curl - insufficient input validation

It was discovered that curl, a client and library to get files from servers using HTTP, HTTPS or FTP, is vulnerable to the 'Null Prefix Attacks Against SSL/TLS Certificates' recently published at the Blackhat conference. This allows an attacker to perform undetected man-in-the-middle attacks via ...

Debian DSA-1917-1 : mimetex - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mimetex, a lightweight alternative to MathML. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1382 Chris Evans and Damien Miller, discovered multiple stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker could...

Debian DSA-1899-1 : strongswan - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in strongswan, an implementation of the IPSEC and IKE protocols. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1957 CVE-2009-1958 The charon daemon can crash when processing certain crafted IKEv2...