Debian DSA-1974-1 : gzip - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been found in gzip, the GNU compression utilities. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2624 Thiemo Nagel discovered a missing input sanitation flaw in the way gzip used to decompress data blocks for dynamic...

Debian DSA-1865-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1385 Neil Horman discovered a missing fix from the e1000 network driver. A...

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-1952-1 : asterisk - several vulnerabilities, end-of-life announcement in oldstable

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in asterisk, an Open Source PBX and telephony toolkit. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-0041 It is possible to determine valid login names via probing, due to the IAX2 response from asteris...

Debian DSA-1831-1 : djbdns - programming error

Matthew Dempsky discovered that Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns, a Domain Name System server, does not constrain offsets in the required manner, which allows remote attackers with control over a third-party subdomain served by tinydns and axfrdns, to trigger DNS responses containing arbitrary record...

Debian DSA-1890-1 : wxwindows2.4 wxwidgets2.6 wxwidgets2.8 - integer overflow

Tielei Wang has discovered an integer overflow in wxWidgets, the wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit, which allows the execution of arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG file. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extract...

Debian DSA-1830-1 : icedove - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-0040 The execution of arbitrary code might be possible via a crafted...

Debian DSA-1910-1 : mysql-ocaml - missing escape function

It was discovered that mysql-ocaml, OCaml bindings for MySql, was missing a function to call mysqlrealescapestring. This is needed, because mysqlrealescapestring honours the charset of the connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte character encodings are used. The adde...

Debian DSA-1898-1 : openswan - denial of service

It was discovered that the pluto daemon in openswan, an implementation of IPSEC and IKE, could crash when processing a crafted X.509 certificate. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisor...

Debian DSA-1858-1 : imagemagick - multiple vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the imagemagick image manipulation programs which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code, exposure of sensitive information or cause DoS. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2007-1667...

Debian DSA-1939-1 : libvorbis - several vulnerabilities

Lucas Adamski, Matthew Gregan, David Keeler, and Dan Kaminsky discovered that libvorbis, a library for the Vorbis general-purpose compressed audio codec, did not correctly handle certain malformed ogg files. An attacker could cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or...

Debian DSA-1947-1 : shibboleth-sp, shibboleth-sp2, opensaml2 - missing input sanitising

Matt Elder discovered that Shibboleth, a federated web single sign-on system is vulnerable to script injection through redirection URLs. More details can be found in the Shibboleth advisory at http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv20091104.txt. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Securit...

Debian DSA-1872-1 : linux-2.6 - denial of service/privilege escalation/information leak

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to denial of service, privilege escalation or a leak of sensitive memory. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-2698 Herbert Xu discovered an issue in the way U...

Debian DSA-1842-1 : openexr - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenEXR image library, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-1720 Drew Yao discovered integer overflows in the preview and compression...

Debian DSA-1896-1 : opensaml, shibboleth-sp - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the opensaml and shibboleth-sp packages, as used by Shibboleth 1.x : - 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...

Debian DSA-1881-1 : cyrus-imapd-2.2 - buffer overflow

It was discovered that the SIEVE component of cyrus-imapd, a highly scalable enterprise mail system, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing SIEVE scripts. Due to incorrect use of the sizeof operator an attacker is able to pass a negative length to snprintf calls resulting in large...

Debian DSA-1995-1 : openoffice.org - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2010-0136 It was discovered that macro security settings were insufficiently enforced for VBA macros. - CVE-2009-0217 It was...

Debian DSA-1949-1 : php-net-ping - programming error

It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments no CVE yet or execute arbitrary commands CVE-2009-4024 on a system that uses php-net-ping. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian DSA-1978-1 : phpgroupware - several vulnerabilities

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpgroupware, a Web-based groupware system written in PHP. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2009-4414 A SQL injection vulnerability was found in the authentication module. -...

Debian DSA-1960-1 : acpid - programming error

It was discovered that acpid, the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon, on the oldstable distribution etch creates its log file with weak permissions, which might expose sensitive information or might be abused by a local user to consume all free disk space on the same partitio...